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 a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Toast, Irish

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

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Aristotle

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Fuller, Thomas

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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 mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.