Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

May I always be worth of my friends.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Make friends before you need them

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, English

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

25.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Piper, E. K.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jerome, St.

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Larson, Doug

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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