Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

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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 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

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

Gay, John

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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