Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

10.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

11.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

12.

May I always be worth of my friends.

13.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Lee, Robert E.

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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 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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Aristotle

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

39.

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

Proverb, Russian

40.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Godospeed, Edgar