Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

10.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

11.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

13.

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

Wycherley, William

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

16.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

17.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

18.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

19.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

22.

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

23.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

25.

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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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

27.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

31.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

32.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

37.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Storey, David

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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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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

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

43.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

44.

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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

46.

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

48.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.