Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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.

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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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 woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Make friends before you need them

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Bukowski, Charles

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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.