Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Woolf, Virginia

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Euripides

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Augustine, St.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William