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 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

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

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

14.

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

Proverb

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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

16.

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

Python, Monty

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

Saying, Hasidic

18.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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 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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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

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Machado, Aaron

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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 like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

45.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Sallust

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.