Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Talmud, The

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

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Tate, Nahum

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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 a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Make friends before you need them

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Terence

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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.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len