Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Larson, Doug

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yeats, William Butler

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Make friends before you need them

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Russian

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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.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.