Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

- Hale, Matthew

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Aristotle

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

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Sallust

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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