Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

- Alcott, Louisa May

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Machado, Aaron

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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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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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Bach, Richard

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric