Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Walker, Alice

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Proverb, Russian

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Euripides

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Gabirol, Ibn

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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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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Make friends before you need them

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Gay, John

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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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.

32.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

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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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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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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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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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 two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank