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

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

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

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

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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.