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

Winchell, Walter

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

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Hitopadesa

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Augustine, St.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Wycherley, William

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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

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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

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb