Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Holz, Julie

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

20.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Larson, Doug

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita