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

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

Storey, David

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

12.

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

Bach, Richard

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Addison, Joseph

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Walker, Alice

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Sallust

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.