Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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

May I always be worth of my friends.

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.

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.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

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

Clark, Esther M.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bach, Richard

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mizner, Wilson

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Toast, Irish

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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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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.