Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

- Proverb, Danish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Talmud, The

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Python, Monty

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.

Kempis, Thomas

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lee, Robert E.

31.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

34.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

40.

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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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 best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De