Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 time to make friends is before you need them.

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

21.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aristotle

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Russian

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.