Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We die as often as we lose a friend.

- Syrus, Publilius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Hubbard, Elbert

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Sallust

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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Make friends before you need them

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Homer

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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

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Bible

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

48.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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