Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

- Kennedy, Eugene

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Thackeray, William M.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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 keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Bible

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Crane, Frank

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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