Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hitopadesa

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

O'Malley, Austin

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Make friends before you need them

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gay, John

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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

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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 true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Wycherley, William

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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