Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Tate, Nahum

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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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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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 should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Talmud, The

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

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson