Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Bennett, Arnold

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Crane, Frank

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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.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Homer

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon