Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Make friends before you need them

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Storey, David

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Crane, Frank

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De