Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Toast, Irish

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Digest, Readers

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ustinov, Peter

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wycherley, William

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Budgell, Eustace

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

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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

Tate, Nahum

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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