Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, English

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Jewish

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