Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tate, Nahum

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Schulberg, Budd

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Sallust

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gay, John

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.