Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Hitopadesa

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Larson, Doug

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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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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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Randolf, G.

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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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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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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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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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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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