Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Seneca

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Sallust

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Epicurus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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