Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Wein, Len

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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.

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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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 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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Hazlitt, William

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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