Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

- Hazlip, E.R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Gibran, Kahlil

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Aristotle

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Augustine, St.

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

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wein, Len

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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