Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Lamb, Charles

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Crane, Frank

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Wycherley, William

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

Euripides

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

Mermet, Claude

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Epicurus

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.