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

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crane, Frank

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Storey, David

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

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

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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

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

Proverb, Indian

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Jerome, St.

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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]

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