Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The time to make friends is before you need them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

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.

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

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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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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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.