Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hitopadesa

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

17.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Storey, David

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bible

21.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Quarles, Francis

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Aristotle

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

41.

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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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 should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius