Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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.

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 walks in when everyone else walks out

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, English

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

Randolf, G.