Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

- Theocritus

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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.

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

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

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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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

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, English

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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