Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Storey, David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Digest, Readers

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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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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William