Motivational Quotes

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Aristotle

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Talmud, The

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

25.

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

White, Somers

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

28.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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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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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