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

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Epicurus

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

White, Somers

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Proverb

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Proverb, English

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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