Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Bible

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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 friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo