Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

- O'Malley, Austin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Aristotle

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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.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Randolf, G.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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 mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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.

32.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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