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 to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Edwards, Robert C.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Jerome, St.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Aristotle

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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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