Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Crane, Frank

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Aristotle

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Schulberg, Budd

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Holz, Julie

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Bible

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Budgell, Eustace

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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.