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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Chambers, Oswald

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Make friends before you need them

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

32.

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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

37.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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