Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

In a friend you find a second self.

- Norton, Isabelle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Bach, Richard

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Make friends before you need them

28.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish