Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

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

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Toast, Irish

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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.

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Make friends before you need them

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

Auden, W. H.

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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