Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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

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

Terence

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

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

10.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

12.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Bible

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

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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 friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Storey, David

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

Uris, Leon