Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Byrnes, James F.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Epicurus

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

13.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Uris, Leon

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Budgell, Eustace

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Machado, Aaron

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

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

Ustinov, Peter