Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Crane, Frank

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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

11.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Crane, Frank

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

25.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Talmud, The

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Crane, Frank

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

43.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse