Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

Ebers, George

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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 multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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

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

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich