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

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

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

10.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

11.

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

12.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

17.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

18.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

28.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

30.

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

37.

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

38.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

42.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

43.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jerome, St.

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

Francis De Sales, St.