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

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

Crane, Frank

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Woolf, Virginia

Make friends before you need them

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Indian

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Terence

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.