Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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

Pythagoras

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

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

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

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Proverb, Indian

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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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

Talmud, The

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

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Larson, Doug

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Bach, Richard

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.