Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Gay, John

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Talmud, The

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Jerome, St.

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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 each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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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.

43.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]