Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Gabirol, Ibn

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Tate, Nahum

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Talmud, The

... 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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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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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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.