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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

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

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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Crane, Frank

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene