Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

- Wycherley, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hazlip, E.R.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Yeats, William Butler

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mermet, Claude

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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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

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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