Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

- Iacocca, Lee

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Crane, Frank

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

La Bruyere, Jean 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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Saying, Hasidic

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gay, John

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

FeNelon, Francois

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Make friends before you need them

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Storey, David

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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