Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

- Talmud, The

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Sicilian

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Python, Monty

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hitopadesa

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gay, John

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Larson, Doug

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.