Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Santayana, George

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

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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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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Johnson, Samuel

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Wycherley, William

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark