Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Spanish

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Aristotle

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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