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

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Bible

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, English

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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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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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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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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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Make friends before you need them

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De