Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

- Proverb, Danish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sallust

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

Aristotle

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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

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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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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.