Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The time to make friends is before you need them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Crane, Frank

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Bible

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Aristotle

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Bennett, Arnold

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Crane, Frank

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Epicurus

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Proverb, Jewish

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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