Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Uris, Leon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Swift, Jonathan

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

14.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

15.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

16.

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

Mermet, Claude

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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

25.

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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

27.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

28.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

30.

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

31.

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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

33.

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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Homer

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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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.

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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