Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Storey, David

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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.

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

10.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

13.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

21.

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

Home, Henry

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Hazlitt, William

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

38.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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