Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Toast, Irish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bach, Richard

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

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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.

30.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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

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

Piper, E. K.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank