Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Storey, David

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Aristotle

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Swift, Jonathan

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crane, Frank

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Make friends before you need them

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo