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

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

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Wycherley, William

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

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

18.

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

Crane, Frank

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Russian

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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