Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

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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

Make friends before you need them

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

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Crane, Frank

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Piper, E. K.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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