Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver