Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

- Wycherley, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Proverb

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Crane, Frank

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Proverb, English

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar