Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

- Bible

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wycherley, William

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

15.

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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

17.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Crane, Frank

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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