Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Saying, Hasidic

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Euripides

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Storey, David

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

30.

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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Clark, Esther M.

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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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

37.

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

38.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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