Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

- Owens, Jesse

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schulberg, Budd

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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.

19.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Randolf, G.

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Sallust

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Terence

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.