Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hitopadesa

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Winchell, Walter

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

FeNelon, Francois

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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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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 puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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Make friends before you need them

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Quarles, Francis

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Bach, Richard

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin