Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

10.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

11.

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

12.

Make friends before you need them

13.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

14.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

15.

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

Bible

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

18.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

20.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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 makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

29.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

30.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

31.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

37.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

42.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

46.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

47.

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

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie