Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

- Ebers, George

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

11.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

12.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proverb, Indian

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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.

17.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

19.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Crane, Frank

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

40.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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May I always be worth of my friends.