Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

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

Proverb, English

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Luther, Martin

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

Talmud, The

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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 Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.