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

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

Make friends before you need them

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb

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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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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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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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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.