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

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

13.

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Larson, Doug

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Jerome, St.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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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.

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Make friends before you need them

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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