Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

- Seneca

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Python, Monty

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

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

Hitopadesa

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Blake, William

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Winchell, Walter

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

White, Somers

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

21.

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

Ovid

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

47.

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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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.