Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

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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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

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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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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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Lee, Robert E.

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Crane, Frank

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Clark, Esther M.

28.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Homer

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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