Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

- Delille, Jacques

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Homer

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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 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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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 can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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