Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Darwin, Charles R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Toast, Irish

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

Seneca

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

11.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Joubert, Joseph

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

17.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

18.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

26.

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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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

32.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.