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

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Hitopadesa

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Terence

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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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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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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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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James, William

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Euripides

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks