Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

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.

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

Holz, Julie

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

Mermet, Claude

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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

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

Winchell, Walter

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Talmud, The

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bach, Richard

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

32.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Home, Henry

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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