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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lamb, Charles

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.