Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Rothschild, William E.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

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

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Terence

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

Clark, Esther M.

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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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Augustine, St.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Ovid

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English