Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

- Buddha

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

O'Malley, Austin

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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... 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

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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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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Ovid

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle