Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Make friends before you need them

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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.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Blake, William

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb

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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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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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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

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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