Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

- Fairbanks, Douglas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Proverb, Russian

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Auden, W. H.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Crane, Frank

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

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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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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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

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

Sallust

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

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone