Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- Byrnes, James F.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Euripides

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Pepys, Samuel

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sallust

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

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

Tate, Nahum

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Winchell, Walter

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

Aristotle

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.