Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Digest, Readers

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Epicurus

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tate, Nahum