Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Uris, Leon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Holz, Julie

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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