Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

- Seneca

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gay, John

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

22.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

27.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

White, Somers

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb, Russian

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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.

Cummins, Anna

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason