Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

- Toast, Irish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Proverb

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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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 always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil