Motivational Quotes

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Randolf, G.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Thackeray, William M.

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.