Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends no one would choose to live.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Crane, Frank

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.