Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

- Mumford, Ethel Watts

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Storey, David

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Homer

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

Jerome, St.

44.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Make friends before you need them

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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