Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

- Joubert, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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

Wycherley, William

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Python, Monty

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Mizner, Wilson

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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 the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hitopadesa

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.