Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Piper, E. K.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Euripides

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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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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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