Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

15.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Mermet, Claude

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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.

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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

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

22.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Crane, Frank

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Blake, William

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Pepys, Samuel

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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.

33.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Toast, Irish

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

43.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

44.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Euripides

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

49.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Hazlitt, William