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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Godospeed, Edgar

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

10.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, 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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

29.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

32.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Aristotle

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

Addison, Joseph

37.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, English

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.