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 a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Larson, Doug

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Piper, E. K.

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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

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

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

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Young, Brigham

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Bukowski, Charles