Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Winchell, Walter

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

10.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

11.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

12.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

16.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Crane, Frank

20.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

White, Somers

24.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

25.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

26.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

27.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

30.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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

43.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

44.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

49.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.