Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Clark, Esther M.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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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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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

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Toast, Irish

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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