Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Luther, Martin

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Seneca

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Crane, Frank

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schulberg, Budd

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Luther, Martin