Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

- Waugh, Evelyn

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

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 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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Terence

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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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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Euripides

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Seneca

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

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.