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Please enjoy these Lord Chesterfield quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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