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

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

Augustine, St.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Toast, Irish

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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 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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Schulberg, Budd

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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

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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

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Russian

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone