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

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Clark, Esther M.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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

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

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul