Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Addison, Joseph

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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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.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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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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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

Talmud, The

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Make friends before you need them

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Pepys, Samuel

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De