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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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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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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Tate, Nahum

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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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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.

25.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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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

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Hitopadesa

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish