Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

13.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aristotle

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

18.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

19.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, English

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

Piper, E. K.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

27.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

33.

Make friends before you need them

34.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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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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

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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