Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

- Walton, Izaak

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Aristotle

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb, Jewish

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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 vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Aristotle

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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.