Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

- Thayer, Mary Dixon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Wycherley, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Epicurus

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Proverb, Jewish

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