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

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Crane, Frank

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Prentice, George D.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Larson, Doug

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Terence

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)