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

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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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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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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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

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

40.

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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Sallust

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb