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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Digest, Readers

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Talmud, The

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard 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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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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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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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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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same