Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Wycherley, William

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, English

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell