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

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

Schulberg, Budd

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

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

Branagh, Kenneth

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, Jewish

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur