Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bible

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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

12.

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

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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

Wein, Len