Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friend is your needs answered.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

10.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

11.

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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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

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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

15.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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

17.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

23.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

25.

... 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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

31.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

32.

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

Proverb, English

33.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

43.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Quarles, Francis

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.