Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

- Lee, Robert E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

Larson, Doug

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

Ustinov, Peter

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

White, Somers

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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.

Bible

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Gay, John

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Bible

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

Pepys, Samuel

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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

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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

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

34.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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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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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Epicurus

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.