Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Seneca

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

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Digest, Readers

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Walker, Alice

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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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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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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hazlitt, William

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will