Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Joubert, Joseph

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Prentice, George D.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

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

Breton, Nicholas

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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.