Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

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

Uris, Leon

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Ebers, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Wycherley, William

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.