Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Theocritus

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bach, Richard

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

16.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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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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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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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Aristotle

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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 takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

48.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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