Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Mermet, Claude

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Gabirol, Ibn

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

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

11.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

18.

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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

20.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Terence

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

31.

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

Proverb

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

34.

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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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.

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Bible

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

Aristotle

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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