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

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

Mermet, Claude

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

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Winchell, Walter

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

Budgell, Eustace

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De