Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

- Lee, Robert E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Talmud, The

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Byrnes, James F.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Proverb, English

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

11.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Proverb

15.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

16.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

18.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

19.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

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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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

25.

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 true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

28.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

34.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

35.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

37.

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

Wein, Len

38.

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

Machado, Aaron

39.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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