Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Crane, Frank

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Homer

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Toast, Irish

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

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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 composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

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

Proverb

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo