Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Watson, Thomas J.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

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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

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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