Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Sallust

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Gay, John

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aristotle

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Addison, Joseph

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

18.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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 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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch