Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb, Russian

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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Crane, Frank

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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 man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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.

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

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Quarles, Francis

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.