Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Godospeed, Edgar

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Aristotle

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

Augustine, St.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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

Proverb, Indian

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Proverb

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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 time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb