Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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.

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

Ebers, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

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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

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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.