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

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

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hitopadesa

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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 real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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Make friends before you need them

19.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

20.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

42.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

43.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb