Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

- Holz, Julie

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Ovid

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

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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

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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 man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Augustine, St.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Euripides

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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 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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.