Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

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

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Crane, Frank

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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

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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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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Bible

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Joubert, Joseph