Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

- Nathan, George Jean

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Francis De Sales, St.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Terence

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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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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.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bible

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa