Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

- Proverb, Chinese

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

2.

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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

4.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Ebers, George

8.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

9.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

12.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

17.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

18.

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

Home, Henry

19.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

20.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

21.

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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

24.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

26.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

29.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

33.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

35.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

36.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

38.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

40.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

41.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

42.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

43.

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

44.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

45.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

46.

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

47.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

48.

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

49.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.