Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

Hoffer, Eric

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

Homer

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

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Woolf, Virginia

15.

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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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Breton, Nicholas

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Russian

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Terence

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

Schulberg, Budd

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Randolf, G.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.