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

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Sallust

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Storey, David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, Russian

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Billings, Josh