Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

- Ziglar, Zig

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, English

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Crane, Frank

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

White, Somers

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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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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