Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Santayana, George

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gay, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb

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

Euripides

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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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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.