Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

Make friends before you need them

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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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

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Mermet, Claude

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

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.