Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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May I always be worth of my 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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Holz, Julie

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epicurus

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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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 know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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