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

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Uris, Leon

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Walker, Alice

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Sallust

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Terence

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Billings, Josh

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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