Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

- Brault, Robert

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

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

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ebers, George

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Billings, Josh

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

28.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Dickens, Charles

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von