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

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

Bach, Richard

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Hasidic

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Larson, Doug

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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