Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

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.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Python, Monty

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

Byrnes, James F.

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.

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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

Tate, Nahum

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

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

Augustine, St.

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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