Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Talmud, The

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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