Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In a friend you find a second self.

- Norton, Isabelle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Hazlitt, William

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Larson, Doug

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Prentice, George D.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

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

Gay, John

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish