Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Aristotle

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

42.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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

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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.

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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