Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

- Proverb, Danish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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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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 can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

O'Malley, Austin

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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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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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.