Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Storey, David

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Uris, Leon

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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.

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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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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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 didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make friends before you need them