Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

- Saying, Hasidic

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Python, Monty

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Theocritus

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

16.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

18.

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

23.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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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

25.

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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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

Barrymore, Ethel

29.

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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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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.

33.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

34.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Gay, John

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

39.

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

Epicurus

40.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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

Piper, E. K.

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

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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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

48.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard