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

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

Proverb

Make friends before you need them

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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Homer

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

Blake, William

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb, Arabian