Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good friends are good for your health.

- Sarason, Irwin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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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

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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

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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 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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Euripides

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William