Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Godospeed, Edgar

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Make friends before you need them

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Bible

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Piper, E. K.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

14.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Talmud, The

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, Indian

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius