Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Pythagoras

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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.

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

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

Bach, Richard

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Proverb

11.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

14.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

15.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

18.

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

Thackeray, William M.

19.

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

20.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

21.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

22.

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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

24.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

25.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

26.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

27.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

28.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

30.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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.

34.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

35.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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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

40.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

41.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

42.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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