Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Epicurus

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

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Proverb

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon