Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

- Mumford, Ethel Watts

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

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.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Bukowski, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jerome, St.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Jewish

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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... 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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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.