Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

... 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

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

10.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

11.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

18.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

19.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gay, John

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Bible

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

34.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jerome, St.

37.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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.

39.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

43.

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

Euripides

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible