Quotes on Friends
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
Oscar Levant
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Your relationships can be made to increase in value by investing more time in them.
Brian Tracy
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
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You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.
Dale Carnegie
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A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
John Rockefeller
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Find people who've done what you want to do and surround yourself with them.
Jeff Olson
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Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.
Jeff Olson
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Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
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Good company and good discourse are the sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
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We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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We acquire the characteristics of the people we associate with on a steady basis.
Zig Ziglar
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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.
James Fredericks
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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
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A millionaire in money is nothing compared to being a millionaire in friends, and everyone can be this, provided you keep these friends when you make them.
William Danforth
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar
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While your friends want you to be successful, they don't want you to be more successful than they are.
Larry Winget
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I will laud my enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
Og Mandino
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You choose your friends, you choose your environment, you choose your actions. And you will be held accountable.
Lou Holtz
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
Napoleon Hill
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
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The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: "Nine out of ten people improve on acquaintance," and I have found his words true.
Frank Swinnerton
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you can; enrich and inspire all you can.
William Arthur Ward
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
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No matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life.
Jim Collins
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You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: is that okay?
Jim Rohn
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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Warren Buffett
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Pursuit of money, fame, and status generally does not produce a bumper crop of friends and friendly relatives in old age. Indeed, those goals are selfish and selfishness is not a way to make friends. Furthermore, money, fame, and status tend to attract false friends which may get in the way of your acquiring real ones.
John T. Reed
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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
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After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.
Seneca
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There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.
Seneca
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Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving.
Seneca
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There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
Sam Keen
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It's a cliché that who you know is helpful for success. What is less obvious is that you don't need to know CEOs and billionaires. Sometimes you just need a friend who knows different things than you do. And you can always find one of those.
Scott Adams
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Given our human impulse to pick up the habits and energy of others, you can use that knowledge to literally program your brain the way you want. Simply find the people who most represent what you would like to become and spend as much time with them as you can without trespassing, kidnapping, or stalking. Their good habits and good energy will rub off on you.
Scott Adams
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If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not. This will help bolster your resolve to do what you should do, in the most appropriate and careful manner.
Jordan Peterson
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Much more of our sanity than we commonly realize is a consequence of our fortunate immersion in a social community. We must be continually reminded to think and act properly. When we drift, people that care for and love us nudge us in small ways and large back on track. So, we better have some of those people around.
Jordan Peterson
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