Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

30.

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

31.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

39.

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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset