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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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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

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Holz, Julie

28.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Euripides

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

40.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Machado, Aaron

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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