Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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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

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

White, Somers

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Quarles, Francis