Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Jerome, St.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Uris, Leon

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Storey, David

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Prentice, George D.

11.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

12.

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

Branagh, Kenneth

13.

... 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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

16.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

18.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Aristotle

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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.

25.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

26.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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

28.

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

29.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

43.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

47.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish