Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

My friends, there are no friends.

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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 a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Make friends before you need them

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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]

Bible

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Larson, Doug

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn