Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Butler, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Holz, Julie

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

10.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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 Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

21.

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

Walker, Alice

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Euripides

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Talmud, The

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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Wycherley, William