Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

10.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, Indian

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

23.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Uris, Leon

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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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.

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.