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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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

11.

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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

15.

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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

17.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

24.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

25.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Mermet, Claude

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

Terence

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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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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Russian

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

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.