Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Crane, Frank

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, English

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Homer

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Randolf, G.

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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