Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Ovid

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

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 without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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What is a friend? I will tell you it 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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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 Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Talmud, The

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, English

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb