Motivational Quotes

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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 true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Gay, John

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

31.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

37.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.