Friendship Quotes - Page 10

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

  Aristotle

  Uplifting, Feelings, Friendly

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Happiness, Teacher, Attitude

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• A friend is a second self.

  Aristotle

  Life, Self, Love At First Sight

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.335

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• The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

  Jay McInerney

  Family, Inspiring, Funny Friend

  Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage

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• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

  Chanakya

  Education, Self, Bitterness

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• Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Happiness, Future, Literature

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 129

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• The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reliability, Tests, Fortune

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• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Memories, Passion

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Friends, World, Ifs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

  Steig Larsson

  Best Friend, Trust, Respect

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• Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Love, Relationship, Long

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• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Happiness, Happy, Sympathy

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• The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, True Love, True Friend

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

  Jay Leno

  True Friend, Book, Airports

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• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

  A. A. Milne

  Teacher, Fun, Writing

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, True Friend, Grief

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Real Friends, Purpose, Critical Spirit

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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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.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode"

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• Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  True Friend, Real Friends, My Best Friend

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• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Real Friends, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Taken, Broken, World

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.21, Aeterna Press

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• Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Family, Fate, Friendship Day

  Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)

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• As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

  Robert Breault

  Giving, Understanding, Trying

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