Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

- Storey, David

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gay, John

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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

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

Mermet, Claude

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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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 die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hitopadesa

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin