Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

FeNelon, Francois

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Python, Monty

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Wycherley, William

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Make friends before you need them

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.