Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

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

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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 proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Terence

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.