Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

- Joubert, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dyke, Henry Van

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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 sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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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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 a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle