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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Perry, Ralph B.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Piper, E. K.

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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

23.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Make friends before you need them

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Talmud, The

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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

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)