Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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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.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

13.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Crane, Frank

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Holz, Julie

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

32.

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

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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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 are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)