Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Tate, Nahum

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

10.

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

11.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Terence

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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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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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

Digest, Readers

35.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

38.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

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