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

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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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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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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Storey, David

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rothschild, William E.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bach, Richard

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Make friends before you need them

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.