Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Auden, W. H.

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

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

10.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Joubert, Joseph

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

27.

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

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

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

White, Somers

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David