Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Lee, Robert E.

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

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

Winchell, Walter

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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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

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Powell, John Enoch

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.