Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

FeNelon, Francois

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Hazlitt, William

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

10.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

12.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

13.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

14.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

15.

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.

16.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

17.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

20.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

21.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

23.

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

Pepys, Samuel

24.

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

25.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

31.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

34.

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

35.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

36.

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 is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

39.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

41.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

Randolf, G.

44.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish