Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- Byrnes, James F.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Proverb, Spanish

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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 held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

26.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bible

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Crane, Frank

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark