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

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Lee, Robert E.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Terence

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aristotle

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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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

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius