Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Edwards, Robert C.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Make friends before you need them

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

Mermet, Claude

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Holz, Julie

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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

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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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Storey, David

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca