Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Toast, Irish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Terence

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

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

Home, Henry

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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 takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Proverb, English

20.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

25.

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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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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

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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 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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.