Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Everybody needs one essential friend.

- Glasser, Dr. William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

18.

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.

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Epicurus

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

FeNelon, Francois

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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