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

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

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

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

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Bach, Richard

10.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Proverb

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

21.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

32.

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

33.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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

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

Aristotle

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

43.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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.