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

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb, English

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Budgell, Eustace

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

12.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

24.

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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Bible

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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 gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

35.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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 to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.