Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Without friends no one would choose to live.

- Aristotle

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Larson, Doug

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

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Addison, Joseph

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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 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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

42.

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

43.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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.

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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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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