Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Yeats, William Butler

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Terence

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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 disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Euripides

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Billings, Josh

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Proverb, English

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian