Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Seneca

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Proverb, Russian

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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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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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Holz, Julie

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Crane, Frank

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De