Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- White, Somers

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Quarles, Francis

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

38.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

43.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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 like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William