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

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aristotle

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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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.

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas