Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

- Nathan, George Jean

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Storey, David

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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 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

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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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Kaufman, Lois L.