Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Aristotle

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Breton, Nicholas

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Proverb

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Sallust

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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