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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Crane, Frank

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Larson, Doug

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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 best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.