Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

- Uris, Leon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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 will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Proverb, Russian

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