Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Short judgments make long friends.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Gay, John

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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 a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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