Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Proverb, Sicilian

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Proverb, English

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Larson, Doug

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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

Talmud, The

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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.

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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.

Bible

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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... 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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Crane, Frank

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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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 do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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.