Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Jerome, St.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.