Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

- Nathan, George Jean

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

15.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

19.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

29.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.