Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Byrnes, James F.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Wycherley, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Breton, Nicholas

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene