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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Toast, Irish

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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