Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hazlitt, William

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

2.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

3.

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

4.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

5.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

7.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

9.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

10.

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

Dickens, Charles

11.

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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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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 essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

17.

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Crane, Frank

19.

May I always be worth of my friends.

20.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

21.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

22.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

23.

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

24.

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

Terence

25.

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

Jerome, St.

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

32.

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

Ebers, George

33.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

34.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

36.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Breton, Nicholas

38.

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

39.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

41.

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

Randolf, G.

42.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

46.

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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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