Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends no one would choose to live.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Larson, Doug

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

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham