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

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Schulberg, Budd

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Make friends before you need them

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.