Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

10.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

11.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

15.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Hitopadesa

17.

Make friends before you need them

18.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Hale, Matthew

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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

25.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

27.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

29.

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

30.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

31.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

33.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

38.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Hazlitt, William

48.

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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William