Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

- Euripides

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Swift, Jonathan

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Bible

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

Gay, John

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle