Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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

Young, Brigham

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schulberg, Budd

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Euripides

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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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 should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard