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

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Swift, Jonathan

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Terence

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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

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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

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Crane, Frank

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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.

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

Proverb, English