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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Quarles, Francis

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mermet, Claude

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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