Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Yeats, William Butler

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Indian

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

... 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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Walker, Alice

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Talmud, The

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Storey, David

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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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.

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De