Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Holz, Julie

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Python, Monty

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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 sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Aristotle

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Proverb

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Lee, Robert E.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.