Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Terence

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Larson, Doug

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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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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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Schulberg, Budd

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Homer

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

Euripides

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bible

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar