Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

- Adams, Henry Brooks

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Aristotle

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

O'Malley, Austin

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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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

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bach, Richard

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest