Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

- Buddha

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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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 to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Make friends before you need them

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Terence

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.