Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Winchell, Walter

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

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Russian

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mermet, Claude

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

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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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil