Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hazlitt, William

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Proverb

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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

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

Breton, Nicholas

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Euripides

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Talmud, The

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

Randolf, G.