Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

- Swift, Jonathan

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Schulberg, Budd

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hazlitt, William

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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