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

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

Euripides

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

12.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

14.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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

Terence

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

22.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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

Godospeed, Edgar

27.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

31.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

33.

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

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

35.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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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.

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Clark, Esther M.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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