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 hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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 are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Crane, Frank

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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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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.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Schulberg, Budd

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Proverb

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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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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.