Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

- Proverb, Arabian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Blake, William

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sallust

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Terence

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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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