Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

- Peter, Laurence J.

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Young, Brigham

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.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, English

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

Crane, Frank

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig