Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

- Twain, Mark

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Quarles, Francis

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

10.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

11.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Crane, Frank

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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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

18.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sallust

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

22.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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

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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

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

31.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

37.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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

Epicurus

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

44.

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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Wycherley, William

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

48.

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

Proverb, English

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.