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

Darwin, Charles R.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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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 unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.