Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bach, Richard

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Joubert, Joseph

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Toast, Irish

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.