Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

- Proverb, Arabian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Make friends before you need them

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

Walker, Alice

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Larson, Doug

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Russian

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mizner, Wilson

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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 genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Aristotle

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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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