Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Byrnes, James F.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

Crane, Frank

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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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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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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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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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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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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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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.