Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

May I always be worth of my friends.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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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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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Wycherley, William

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

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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 friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.