Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

May I always be worth of my friends.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Proverb

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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