Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Holz, Julie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle