Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

- Larson, Doug

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Luther, Martin

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Hazlitt, William

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

17.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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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 mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.