Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

- Johnson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bible

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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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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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Proverb, Russian

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Piper, E. K.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Randolf, G.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset