Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Russian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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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 greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Homer

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

28.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Larson, Doug

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.