Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

- Thayer, Mary Dixon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Schulberg, Budd

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Perry, Ralph B.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

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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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 can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William