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

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

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

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

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

Crane, Frank

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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.

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

Digest, Readers

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Auden, W. H.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Epicurus

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Terence

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Homer

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Gay, John

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.