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

1.

Make friends before you need them

2.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

4.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

5.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

7.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

8.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Indian

10.

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

11.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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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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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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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 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

17.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

18.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

19.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

20.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

21.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

22.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

23.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

25.

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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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

28.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

30.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

32.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

36.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

40.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

Proverb, English

43.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

44.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

45.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

May I always be worth of my friends.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

49.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

50.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.