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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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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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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Larson, Doug

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

Piper, E. K.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Blake, William

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Terence

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.

37.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

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Make friends before you need them

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William