Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Proverb, English

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Talmud, The

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Larson, Doug

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Jerome, St.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.