Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

- Ustinov, Peter

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Talmud, The

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Russian

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, English

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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