Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

- Levinson, Leonard Louis

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Talmud, The

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Tate, Nahum

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

25.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Crane, Frank

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

41.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Bible

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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