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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

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

15.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

16.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

18.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

20.

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

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

Budgell, Eustace

22.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

23.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

25.

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

Quarles, Francis

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

29.

Make friends before you need them

30.

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

Sallust

31.

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

32.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

33.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

34.

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

35.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

36.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

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

39.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

40.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

41.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

42.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

43.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

44.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

45.

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

Crane, Frank

46.

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

Bible

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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

Uris, Leon