Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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]

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Piper, E. K.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

18.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

24.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

25.

May I always be worth of my friends.

26.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Larson, Doug

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

30.

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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

40.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Dickens, Charles

46.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil