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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Toast, Irish

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Aristotle

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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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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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Talmud, The

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

Terence

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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