Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

10.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

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.

13.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

18.

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

Python, Monty

19.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

21.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

27.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

28.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

29.

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

Breton, Nicholas

30.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

35.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

43.

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

Home, Henry

44.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Terence

46.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

47.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

48.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von