Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

- Tate, Nahum

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Edwards, Robert C.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Mizner, Wilson

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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.

Randall, Erwin T.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Make friends before you need them

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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

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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

Joubert, Joseph

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bach, Richard

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish