Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bach, Richard

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Proverb, English

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Mizner, Wilson

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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 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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Larson, Doug

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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