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

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Crane, Frank

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

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Luther, Martin

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.