Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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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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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, 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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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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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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Talmud, The

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

Toast, Irish

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Piper, E. K.

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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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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Gay, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham