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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Johnson, Samuel

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Make friends before you need them

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.