Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Bach, Richard

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

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Homer

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.