Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Gay, John

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

10.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

17.

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

Proverb, Russian

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

23.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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