Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Sallust

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

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Seneca

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Python, Monty

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.