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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

Crane, Frank

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Dickens, Charles

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Crane, Frank

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

13.

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

14.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

22.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

23.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

25.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

26.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

27.

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

28.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

29.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

32.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

33.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

34.

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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Winchell, Walter

37.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

38.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

40.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

Lee, Robert E.

42.

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

45.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

48.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts