Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Young, Brigham

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Gay, John

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Hazlitt, William

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Kaufman, Lois L.