Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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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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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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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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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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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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