Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

White, Somers

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Wycherley, William

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Gabirol, Ibn

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Aristotle

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proverb, Indian

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.