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

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

Quarles, Francis

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Proverb

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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.

Condie, Sheryl

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

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

Python, Monty

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Make friends before you need them

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Woolf, Virginia

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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 held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph