Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

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

Crane, Frank

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

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

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Toast, Irish

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

29.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Bible

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Machado, Aaron

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Godospeed, Edgar