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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Wein, Len

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

Proverb, Chinese

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Thackeray, William M.

12.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Proverb

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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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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

23.

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

Proverb, Russian

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Terence

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

Mermet, Claude

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De