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

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bach, Richard

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gay, John

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Aristotle

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Crane, Frank

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll