Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

- Hazlip, E.R.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

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

Proverb, English

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Terence

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

Proverb

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

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

17.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

18.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

22.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

30.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

41.

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

Aristotle

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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.