Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Russian

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca