Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, English

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Terence

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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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.