Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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]

Bible

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Storey, David

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

18.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

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

20.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

21.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

22.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

23.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Uris, Leon

25.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

28.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

30.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

31.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

32.

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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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

34.

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

35.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Crane, Frank

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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

40.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

41.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

42.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

43.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

44.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

48.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

49.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.