Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Byrnes, James F.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Machado, Aaron

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Budgell, Eustace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Euripides

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Fuller, Thomas

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Make friends before you need them

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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