Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Make friends before you need them

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.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Terence

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Piper, E. K.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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.