Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joubert, Joseph

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Seneca

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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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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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse