Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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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 true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Euripides

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Jewish

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward