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

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Mermet, Claude

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

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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

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Thoreau, Henry David