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

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Bach, Richard

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Bible

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Make friends before you need them

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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.

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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 should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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.

Lewis, C. S.