Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Proverb

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Ebers, George

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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

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

Homer

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul