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

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Lincoln, Abraham

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Dickens, Charles

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Spanish

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Uris, Leon

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Hazlitt, William

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

47.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish