Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Johnson, Samuel

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Crane, Frank

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Aristotle

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Holz, Julie

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Santayana, George

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Make friends before you need them

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Toast, Irish

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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