Motivational Quotes

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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.

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

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Aristotle

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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.