Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Mermet, Claude

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Randolf, G.

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Blake, William

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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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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Storey, David

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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