Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Clark, Esther M.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Winchell, Walter

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Proverb

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

Ebers, George

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

Python, Monty

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, 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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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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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Lee, Robert E.

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gay, John

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

White, Somers

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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.

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew 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

41.

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

Seneca

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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