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 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

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

Aristotle

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

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

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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

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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

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.