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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bach, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Machado, Aaron

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

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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 ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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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 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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Theocritus

36.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Python, Monty

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

Young, Brigham

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Bible

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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