Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

- Proverb, Turkish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Toast, Irish

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

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

Hitopadesa

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

15.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

19.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

22.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

24.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Theocritus

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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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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 true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

31.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

32.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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 good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

41.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

44.

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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

46.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.