Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

- Addison, Joseph

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Proverb, English

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Billings, Josh

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Talmud, The

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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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 true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

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

Sallust

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.