Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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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

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Hazlitt, William

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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

37.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Sallust

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Ones oldest friend is the best.