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

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sallust

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Gay, John

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Jerome, St.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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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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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.