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

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

18.

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

Holz, Julie

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Hazlitt, William

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Crane, Frank

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

Randolf, G.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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 best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum