Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Hazlitt, William

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

Home, Henry

10.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

11.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

16.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

17.

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

18.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

19.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

21.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

24.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

25.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

26.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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

28.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

29.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

30.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

32.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

33.

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

34.

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

Theocritus

35.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

36.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

40.

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

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

42.

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

Talmud, The

43.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

48.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English