Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

- Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Darwin, Charles R.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Thackeray, William M.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

29.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

35.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Talmud, The

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest