Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

- Proverb, Greek

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Prentice, George D.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

10.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

11.

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

Clark, Esther M.

12.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

14.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

15.

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

Thackeray, William M.

16.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

18.

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

Chambers, Oswald

19.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

20.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

21.

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

Bukowski, Charles

22.

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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

27.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

28.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

30.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

31.

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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

34.

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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

40.

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

Theocritus

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

43.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Pepys, Samuel

49.

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

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna