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

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Proverb, Indian

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Bukowski, Charles

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.