Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Jewish

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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.

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

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Proverb

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

Homer

11.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

15.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

28.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Euripides

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

31.

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

32.

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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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Bach, Richard

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

43.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''