Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friendship is your needs answered.

- Proverb, Danish

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

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

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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.

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Make friends before you need them

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

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

Holz, Julie

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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