Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Crane, Frank

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Mermet, Claude

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

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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 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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Proverb

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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

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Proverb

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

Swift, Jonathan

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William