Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, English

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

10.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

11.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

13.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

14.

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

15.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

17.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

18.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

19.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

20.

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

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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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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.

23.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

25.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

26.

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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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

28.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

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

Python, Monty

30.

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

Walker, Alice

31.

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

32.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

33.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

White, Somers

36.

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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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

41.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Epicurus

43.

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

44.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

45.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

46.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas