Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hitopadesa

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Russian

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Quarles, Francis

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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 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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard