Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

- O'Malley, Austin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Byrnes, James F.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.