Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Proverb, Chinese

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Quarles, Francis

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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Make friends before you need them

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sallust

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques