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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Homer

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo