Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

- Yeats, William Butler

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Talmud, The

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Larson, Doug

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

Billings, Josh

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Bach, Richard

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

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

35.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Digest, Readers

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Terence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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