Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

- White, Somers

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

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

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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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Terence

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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.

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Aristotle

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Arabian

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Breton, Nicholas

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Proverb, Russian

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Make friends before you need them

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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