Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Luther, Martin

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

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

24.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Woolf, Virginia

33.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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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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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.