Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Short judgments make long friends.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Rothschild, William E.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Larson, Doug

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

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

Schulberg, Budd

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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 a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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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

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

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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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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

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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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