Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

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

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

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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

Lee, Robert E.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Lincoln, Abraham