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

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

Pythagoras

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

Piper, E. K.

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

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Wycherley, William

12.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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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

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

Uris, Leon

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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

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

Ebers, George

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

27.

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

28.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

31.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Powell, John Enoch