Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.