Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Talmud, The

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Breton, Nicholas

10.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

11.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

12.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

18.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

19.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Santayana, George

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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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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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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

30.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Python, Monty

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English