Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Santayana, George

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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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 like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle