Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Short judgments make long friends.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bennett, Arnold

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

13.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

15.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

20.

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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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 Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

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

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

36.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

41.

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

Pythagoras

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Wycherley, William