Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

- Proverb, Spanish

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Crane, Frank

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

Larson, Doug

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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 always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.