Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Indian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Mermet, Claude

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Proverb, Jewish

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Epicurus

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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

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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

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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