Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Perry, Ralph B.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Bukowski, Charles

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Rothschild, William E.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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