Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

- Budgell, Eustace

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Toast, Irish

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

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Uris, Leon

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Aristotle

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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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 loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

38.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

40.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Terence

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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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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.