Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

- Jerome, St.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Lincoln, Abraham

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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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.

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, English

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle