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

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

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

Blake, William

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

12.

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

22.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

26.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

27.

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

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

30.

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

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

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

Holz, Julie

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

42.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]