Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

- Walton, Izaak

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, English

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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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

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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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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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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

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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