Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

- Lawes, Lewis E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Crane, Frank

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Jerome, St.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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 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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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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.