Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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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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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.