Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George