Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Branagh, Kenneth

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

10.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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 true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Homer

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

33.

May I always be worth of my friends.

34.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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 value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Byrnes, James F.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Wycherley, William

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

Proverb, Russian

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Lincoln, Abraham