Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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 comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

19.

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

Crane, Frank

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

Proverb

21.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

22.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

39.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

45.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin