Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

- Bennett, Arnold

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

Make friends before you need them

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Terence

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Bible

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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