Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

- Brown, John Mason

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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 best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Pepys, Samuel

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

Dickens, Charles