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

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

22.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

23.

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

Crane, Frank

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

30.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

31.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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May I always be worth of my friends.

39.

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

Toast, Irish

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

44.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

47.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Holz, Julie

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William