Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Hitopadesa

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Mermet, Claude

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Epicurus

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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