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

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

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

Ebers, George

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, English

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Homer

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.