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

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

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

Hazlip, E.R.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gay, John

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Theocritus

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friends are proved by adversity.