Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Aristotle

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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.

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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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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

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean 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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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

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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 New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Russian

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Holz, Julie

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.