Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Jewish

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Proverb, Sicilian

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Tate, Nahum

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Spanish

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

23.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Proverb

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

Sallust

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan