Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Aristotle

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Jerome, St.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Proverb, English

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Sallust