Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Auden, W. H.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

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

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Holz, Julie

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

30.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.