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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Wycherley, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Bible

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

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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

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude