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

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

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Indian

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Aristotle

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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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

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Larson, Doug

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.