Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Billings, Josh

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Make friends before you need them

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Hitopadesa

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schulberg, Budd

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver