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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Storey, David

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

17.

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

Prentice, George D.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

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

Bible

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

Crane, Frank

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Proverb, Indian

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Gay, John

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

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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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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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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 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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin