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

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

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Machado, Aaron

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Talmud, The

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Wycherley, William

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

Epicurus

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near