Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Walker, Alice

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Machado, Aaron

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Clark, Esther M.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Ebers, George

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

Hitopadesa

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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 true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Talmud, The

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

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Storey, David

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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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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Make friends before you need them

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich