Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

- Aretino, Pietro

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Branagh, Kenneth

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Proverb

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

Crane, Frank

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

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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 hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.