Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Make friends before you need them

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Wein, Len

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Randolf, G.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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 a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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

Quarles, Francis

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean 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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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