Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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]

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Homer

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Python, Monty

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

19.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

25.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

26.

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

Walker, Alice

27.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

28.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

29.

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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crane, Frank

33.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

34.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

38.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

May I always be worth of my friends.

42.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

47.

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

Quarles, Francis

48.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

49.

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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.