Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

- Thackeray, William M.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Bible

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Crane, Frank

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Randolf, G.

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

Proverb, English

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

34.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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 never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.