Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Jewish

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Byrnes, James F.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Bach, Richard

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Talmud, The

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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

Toast, Irish

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

FeNelon, Francois