Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

Gay, John

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

23.

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

Bach, Richard

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

31.

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

Proverb, Russian

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

34.

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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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.