Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

- Eliot, T. S.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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

Aristotle

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Crane, Frank

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Blake, William

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.