Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Quarles, Francis

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

33.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

Proverb

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Aristotle

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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