Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Crane, Frank

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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

Euripides

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Wycherley, William

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Holz, Julie

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Toast, Irish

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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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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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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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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.