Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Talmud, The

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Proverb

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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

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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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Storey, David

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Piper, E. K.

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