Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Russian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

10.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

11.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

19.

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

Euripides

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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

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Homer

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Wycherley, William

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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's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

31.

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

33.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

38.

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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Aristotle

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph