Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

- Brookner, Anita

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Darwin, Charles R.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

10.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

12.

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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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Proverb, Jewish

16.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

19.

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

Crane, Frank

20.

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

21.

May I always be worth of my friends.

22.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

23.

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

Proverb, Russian

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

25.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

27.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

32.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

34.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Johnson, Samuel

40.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

41.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

43.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

45.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel