Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Larson, Doug

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

Proverb, English

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Auden, W. H.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Crane, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Machado, Aaron

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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