Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

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

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Proverb, Russian

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Euripides

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Ebers, George

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

39.

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Proverb

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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 can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August