Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Santayana, George

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

Make friends before you need them

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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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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Quarles, Francis

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Mermet, Claude

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Dyke, Henry Van