Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Woolf, Virginia

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

10.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

24.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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 woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

37.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

41.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

44.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Dickens, Charles

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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

48.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb