Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

- Bloch, Arthur

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

25.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Quarles, Francis

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

36.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Jerome, St.

38.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

Bible

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Talmud, The