Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wein, Len

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

Young, Brigham

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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 friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Euripides

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Crane, Frank

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

Bach, Richard

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Make friends before you need them

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

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish