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

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

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Tate, Nahum

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb, English

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

13.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

15.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

16.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

18.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

19.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Epicurus

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Make friends before you need them

24.

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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

33.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

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

Augustine, St.

46.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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