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

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

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

Toast, Irish

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

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Breton, Nicholas

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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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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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Talmud, The

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Terence

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

29.

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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Gay, John

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Storey, David

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William