Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Augustine, St.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Bach, Richard

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Russian

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

19.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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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 man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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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

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason