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

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

Proverb

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bible

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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.

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

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Larson, Doug

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Holz, Julie

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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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

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, English

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hazlitt, William

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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