Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

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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.

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

Larson, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

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

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Holz, Julie

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Luther, Martin

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Pepys, Samuel

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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