Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Proverb, Sicilian

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

11.

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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

29.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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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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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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We die as often as we lose a friend.