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

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Winchell, Walter

18.

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

19.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

20.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

25.

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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

31.

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

Wycherley, William

32.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

42.

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

Pepys, Samuel

43.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

45.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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 man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.