Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

- Bukowski, Charles

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Python, Monty

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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Wycherley, William

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.