Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bible

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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 one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin