Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Crane, Frank

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Lamb, Charles

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Blake, William

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ebers, George

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Bible

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.