Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my 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

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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