Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

- Joubert, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Aristotle

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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.

Pythagoras

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam