Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

- Epicurus

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aristotle

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

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

Theocritus

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Storey, David

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.