Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Piper, E. K.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

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

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

10.

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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

13.

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

Luther, Martin

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

15.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

17.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

20.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

22.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

27.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

28.

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

29.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

30.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

33.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

34.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Toast, Irish

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Proverb, English

44.

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

Wycherley, William

45.

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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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