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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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.

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

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

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Talmud, The

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Indian

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.