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

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

Crane, Frank

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Dickens, Charles

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Ovid

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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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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

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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 is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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