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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Larson, Doug

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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

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

Jerome, St.

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.