Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Lawes, Lewis E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Homer

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Russian

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

10.

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

11.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

12.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

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

14.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

16.

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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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

18.

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.

19.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

20.

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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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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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

25.

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

26.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

28.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

29.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.

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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... 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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

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

Toast, Irish

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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