Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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

Breton, Nicholas

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Quarles, Francis

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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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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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Talmud, The

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Aristotle