Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Aristotle

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Euripides

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Tate, Nahum

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Terence

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

39.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

40.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Wein, Len

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Seneca

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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.