Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Aristotle

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.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Talmud, The

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

18.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

19.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

20.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

21.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

22.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

Bach, Richard

26.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

29.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

Proverb, Indian

31.

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

Proverb, English

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Alcott, Louisa May

35.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

37.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

39.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

40.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Schulberg, Budd

43.

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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Proverb, Russian

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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.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

49.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.