Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Talmud, The

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Proverb

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

White, Somers

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

Gay, John

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Blake, William