Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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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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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Jewish

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Larson, Doug

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Holz, Julie

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Storey, David