Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- FeNelon, Francois

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Randolf, G.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Storey, David

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.