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

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

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

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Piper, E. K.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Bible

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Larson, Doug

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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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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.