Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

- Prentice, George D.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Hazlitt, William

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

FeNelon, Francois

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Sallust

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

Crane, Frank

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.