Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

- Bible

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hazlip, E.R.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

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

Toast, Irish

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis