Friends Quotes - Page 30

• Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Ignorance, Envy

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• Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Wedding, Time

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 01, 2014

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• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

  Claudine Guerin de Tencin

  Friendship, Advice, May

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• If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.273, Wildside Press LLC

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• What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Self, Care

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• I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Positive, Looks

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)

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• My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Enough, Knows

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• There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

  Boris Yeltsin

  People, Political, Temptation

  "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.

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• I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

  Dian Fossey

  Destiny, Parent, May

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• My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

  Carnie Wilson

  Inspirational, Marriage, Dog

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• Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

  Henry Williamson

  Father, Flower, Eye

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• Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  George Eliot

  Yesterday, Forever, One Day

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• It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

  Anne Roiphe

  Friendship, Moving, People

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• Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Forgiveness, War

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• Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Running, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 08, 2012

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Men, Waiting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.470

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

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, True Friend, Faces

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Yesterday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

  Charles Hanson Towne

  Cities, Corners, Around The Corner

  Charles Hanson Towne (1919). “A World of Windows: And Other Poems”

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• You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

  Joan Jett

  Fake People, Nothing To Lose, Behind Your Back

  Twitter post from Aug 30, 2013

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• Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Names, Volunteer

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

  Byron Katie

  Done, World

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• Friends are ourselves.

  John Donne

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