Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Make friends before you need them

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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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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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Python, Monty

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.