Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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

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

Storey, David

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Terence

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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... 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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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 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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.