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

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.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Blake, William

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Augustine, St.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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.

22.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

23.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Crane, Frank

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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 miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near