Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Byrnes, James F.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Crane, Frank

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

17.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

19.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

21.

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

22.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Crane, Frank

34.

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

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

39.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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 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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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