Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

- Godospeed, Edgar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Aristotle

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

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

Crane, Frank

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

Lee, Robert E.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Crane, Frank

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Terence

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham