Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

- Lamb, Charles

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Luther, Martin

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

Make friends before you need them

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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 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.

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Santayana, George

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

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

Crane, Frank

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.