Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Yeats, William Butler

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Bach, Richard

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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 friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Epicurus

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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