Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Aristotle

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon