Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friendship is your needs answered.

- Proverb, Danish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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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

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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 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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

33.

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

Proverb

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

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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.

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

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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