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

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mermet, Claude

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Clark, Esther M.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

11.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Hitopadesa

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

Hazlitt, William

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Sallust

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

33.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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