Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Talmud, The

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Bible

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides