Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

- Branagh, Kenneth

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Budgell, Eustace

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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

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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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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

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas