Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Talmud, The

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Seneca

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

Lee, Robert E.

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