Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Terence

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bible

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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Terence

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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

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

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

30.

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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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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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lee, Robert E.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

Homer

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar