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

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Crane, Frank

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques