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

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

Digest, Readers

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aristotle

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Make friends before you need them

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Proverb, Indian

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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

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

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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.