Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Holz, Julie

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Bukowski, Charles

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Talmud, The

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

Homer

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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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 die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Aristotle

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

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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.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius