Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

- Hoffer, Eric

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Schulberg, Budd

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Holz, Julie

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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 should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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

Bukowski, Charles

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.