Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

- Swift, Jonathan

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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

13.

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

Mermet, Claude

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

21.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)