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

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

Swift, Jonathan

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

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

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Proverb, Sicilian

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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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.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Wycherley, William

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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

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

Randolf, G.

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

Terence

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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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.