Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Make friends before you need them

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Sallust

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

White, Somers

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.