Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Sicilian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Arabian

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Larson, Doug

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aristotle

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Terence

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

Ebers, George

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.