Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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