Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good friends are good for your health.

- Sarason, Irwin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Dyke, Henry Van

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Crane, Frank

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Young, Brigham

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, English

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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.

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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