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

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Crane, Frank

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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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 true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Terence

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

21.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Proverb

25.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

29.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

31.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gay, John

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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 as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich