Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

- Thayer, Mary Dixon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.