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

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

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

Wycherley, William

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Winchell, Walter

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Hazlitt, William

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Blake, William

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.