Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Gibran, Kahlil

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Waugh, Evelyn

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

14.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

17.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

23.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Billings, Josh

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

32.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

38.

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

39.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

46.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Proverb