Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Pythagoras

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Seneca

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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... 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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.