Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

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

Make friends before you need them

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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

Digest, Readers

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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 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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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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

Larson, Doug

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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