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

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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

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

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.