Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Clark, Esther M.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 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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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

44.

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

Bible

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

Saying, Hasidic