Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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

Uris, Leon

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gabirol, Ibn

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

10.

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

11.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

12.

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

13.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

18.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

19.

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

Seneca

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

27.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Aristotle

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

33.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

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

Winchell, Walter

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

38.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Jewish

40.

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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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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