Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

- Owens, Jesse

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

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

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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 do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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