Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

- Schulberg, Budd

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Barrymore, Ethel

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

10.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walker, Alice

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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

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Bible

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

21.

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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

23.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

26.

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

Breton, Nicholas

27.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

28.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

29.

May I always be worth of my friends.

30.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

31.

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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

35.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

41.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

42.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

White, Somers

49.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.