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

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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.

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

Proverb

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

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

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

Holz, Julie

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

19.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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

Prentice, George D.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Lee, Robert E.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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

39.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Proverb

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