Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- Byrnes, James F.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

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

Randolf, G.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Lee, Robert E.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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.

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Make friends before you need them

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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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

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Euripides

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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.

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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

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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis