Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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