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

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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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

11.

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

12.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

15.

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

Python, Monty

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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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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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

19.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

21.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

22.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

24.

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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

30.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

31.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

33.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

35.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

41.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

44.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James