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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

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

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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May I always be worth of my friends.

21.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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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 out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will