Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

- Proverb, English

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

Jerome, St.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Tate, Nahum

10.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

11.

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 is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

13.

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

Pythagoras

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Homer

17.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

18.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

19.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

20.

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

21.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

24.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

25.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

30.

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.

31.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

32.

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

Edwards, Robert C.

33.

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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

35.

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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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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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

40.

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

Schulberg, Budd

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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.

44.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

45.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

48.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

49.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish