Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

- Thayer, Mary Dixon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Blake, William

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Aristotle

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.