Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Aristotle

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

Make friends before you need them

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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 someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...