Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Edwards, Robert C.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Homer

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Sallust

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.