Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Bennett, Arnold

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Meltzer, Bernard

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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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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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Walker, Alice

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

Proverb, Russian

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Larson, Doug

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Crane, Frank

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

Piper, E. K.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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