Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Proverb, English

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

Talmud, The

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schulberg, Budd

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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 Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Sallust

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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.