Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

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

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

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

Buscaglia, Leo

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

Winchell, Walter

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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May I always be worth of my friends.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

Talmud, The

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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.