Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Lawes, Lewis E.

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

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Talmud, The

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

Byrnes, James F.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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 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

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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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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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.

25.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Larson, Doug

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Aristotle

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph