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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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

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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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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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Proverb, Indian

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Talmud, The

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine