Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proverb

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Theocritus

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

18.

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

Storey, David

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Digest, Readers

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, English

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

49.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.