Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Alcott, Louisa May

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

10.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

11.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

17.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

18.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

19.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

20.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Proverb

25.

May I always be worth of my friends.

26.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

27.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

29.

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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

31.

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

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

33.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

37.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

38.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

39.

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

Bible

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

41.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

43.

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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Terence

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Jerome, St.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.