Motivational Quotes

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

2.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

3.

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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

5.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

6.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

7.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

8.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

9.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

10.

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

Homer

11.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

17.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

18.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

21.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

22.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bible

24.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

25.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

26.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

33.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

36.

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

37.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Breton, Nicholas

39.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

40.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

41.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

42.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

43.

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

44.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

45.

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

46.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

47.

Make friends before you need them

48.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

49.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.