Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Holz, Julie

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.