Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Breton, Nicholas

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Proverb, English

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Wycherley, William

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Epicurus

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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