Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Crane, Frank

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Clark, Esther M.

11.

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

Lee, Robert E.

12.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

16.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

17.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

18.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

22.

Make friends before you need them

23.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

24.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Uris, Leon

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

33.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

34.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

38.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

40.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

41.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

45.

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

Billings, Josh

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Branagh, Kenneth