Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

- Larson, Doug

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

O'Malley, Austin

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Holz, Julie

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Winchell, Walter

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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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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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

43.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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