Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Terence

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ebers, George

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

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

Breton, Nicholas

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.