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

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.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Crane, Frank

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Russian

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Gay, John

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Proverb, Jewish