Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Saying, Hasidic

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Machado, Aaron

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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 those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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... 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

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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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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William