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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

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

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.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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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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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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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hazlitt, William

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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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

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian