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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Make friends before you need them

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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

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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.

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo