Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Seneca

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

O'Malley, Austin

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Larson, Doug

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Augustine, St.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

Jerome, St.

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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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.