Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Godospeed, Edgar

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Arabian

20.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Russian

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May I always be worth of my friends.

34.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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

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

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Crane, Frank

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Swift, Jonathan

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hubbard, Elbert