Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aristotle

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gay, John

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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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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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Sallust

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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