Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

- Eastman, Charles Alexander

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

11.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Aristotle

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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Toast, Irish

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Epicurus

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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.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De