Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Russian

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Epicurus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

10.

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Jewish

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Clark, Esther M.

32.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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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.

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

41.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.