Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

- Baker, Nicholson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tate, Nahum

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Talmud, The

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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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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

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bible

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Jerome, St.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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