Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Dyke, Henry Van

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Pythagoras

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Crane, Frank

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

White, Somers

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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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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Howe, Edgar Watson