Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Mizner, Wilson

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Toast, Irish

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

Aristotle

10.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Powell, John Enoch

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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

43.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle