Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Santayana, George

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Euripides

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Swift, Jonathan

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Sallust

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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 you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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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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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

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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 always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Without friends no one would choose to live.