Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

- Weldon, Fay

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Proverb, Spanish

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

12.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

13.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

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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.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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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

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

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.