Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

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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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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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Proverb, Russian

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Larson, Doug

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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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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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Gay, John

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible