Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Mumford, Ethel Watts

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Hazlitt, William

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

6.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

20.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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