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

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

... 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

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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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.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Schulberg, Budd

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.