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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Russian

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

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.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Pythagoras

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

24.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

25.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

27.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Storey, David

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Proverb, Indian

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