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 loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Thackeray, William M.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

12.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

14.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

15.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

16.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

17.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

19.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

23.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

25.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Tate, Nahum

28.

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

29.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Epicurus

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Bach, Richard

37.

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

Crane, Frank

38.

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

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

40.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

44.

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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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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

47.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

Make friends before you need them

49.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De