Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Aristotle

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

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Russian

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

29.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

33.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Uris, Leon

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Proverb, English