Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

White, Somers

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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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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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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

Crane, Frank

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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