Motivational Quotes

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]

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Sallust

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Make friends before you need them

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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.

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Crane, Frank

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

O'Malley, Austin

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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