Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Mermet, Claude

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Santayana, George

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Wein, Len

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Terence

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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.

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius