Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Proverb, Russian

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Winchell, Walter

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sallust

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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 rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Seneca