Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Lamb, Charles

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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