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

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Saying, Hasidic

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Crane, Frank

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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 multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Python, Monty

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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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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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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor