Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

- Talmud, The

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Young, Brigham

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

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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

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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 difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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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

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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 only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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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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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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