Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Larson, Doug

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Augustine, St.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Holz, Julie

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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