Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Make friends before you need them

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Bennett, Arnold

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Storey, David

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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 is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

43.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius