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

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

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Bach, Richard

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Gibran, Kahlil

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Talmud, The

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

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

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham