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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

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

Crane, Frank

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Seneca

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Breton, Nicholas

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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.