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

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Powell, John Enoch

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Crane, Frank

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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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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Indian

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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 mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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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

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

Larson, Doug

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock