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

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

Proverb, Spanish

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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

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.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Crane, Frank

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Joubert, Joseph

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, Indian

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Make friends before you need them

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Fuller, Thomas