Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Talmud, The

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Randolf, G.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

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

Blake, William

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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