Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Saying, Hasidic

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Santayana, George

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Wycherley, William

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

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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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

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew