Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

- Wycherley, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Yeats, William Butler

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

19.

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

Storey, David

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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 faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Jewish

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Chinese

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

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