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

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Indian

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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 didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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