Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

- Tate, Nahum

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Quarles, Francis

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bible

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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 home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Talmud, The

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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