Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

- Thayer, Mary Dixon

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

Powell, John Enoch

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Proverb

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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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.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Gay, John

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

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

Proverb, English

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Talmud, The

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Make friends before you need them

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clark, Esther M.