Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

- Randall, Erwin T.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Winchell, Walter

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

Sallust

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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 friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Proverb, English

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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