Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Homer

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

11.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Thackeray, William M.

17.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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

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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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Quarles, Francis

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

36.

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

Homer

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.