Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Rothschild, William E.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Homer

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

26.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Randolf, G.

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

Bach, Richard

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

O'Malley, Austin

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

43.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Make friends before you need them

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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 always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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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