Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Piper, E. K.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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

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

Seneca

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Uris, Leon

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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 man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.