Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

- Bacon, Francis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Python, Monty

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

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

Aristotle

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bible

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Prentice, George D.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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 to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

39.

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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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 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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Indian

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle