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

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Ebers, George

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 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

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Seneca

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Make friends before you need them

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