Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

- Paterson, Samuel

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

18.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Proverb, Jewish

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Proverb, Jewish

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

41.

Make friends before you need them

42.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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