Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Proverb, Nigerian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Storey, David

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wycherley, William

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Young, Brigham

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Tate, Nahum

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Chambers, Oswald

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Home, Henry

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Thackeray, William M.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.