Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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 and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Wycherley, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.