Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Wycherley, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Randolf, G.

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb, Russian

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil