Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Storey, David

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Euripides

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.