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

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

Hitopadesa

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Bukowski, Charles

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

13.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

21.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Euripides

27.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

31.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

33.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

34.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Schulberg, Budd

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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

46.

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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clark, Esther M.