Top 100 Better Friendship Quotes
#1. I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
William Barclay
#2. Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic.
J. Oswald Sanders
#3. Sometimes, it was better to extend the hand of friendship than to force compliance by fear.
Nalini Singh
#4. The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.
Barbara Kingsolver
#5. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
Adhish Mazumder
#6. I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone-feel a little better.
J.D Scrubs
#7. It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#8. I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?
Jayne Bauling
#9. Your friendship is better than chocolate! Well, anyway, it's right up there.
Julie Sutton
#10. When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Zhang Ziyi
#11. Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
Hayao Miyazaki
#12. If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.
Cassandra Clare
#13. Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
Thiruvalluvar
#14. We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,
his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,
fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#16. It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#17. The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
Rabindranath Tagore
#18. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
Crystal Woods
#20. In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.
Michel De Montaigne
#21. My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.
Royal Robbins
#23. I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
Confucius
#24. Love is a two-way game, you cannot truly love one who does not love you, and neither can you force them to love you, better look past the hurtful deeds and search for the one who truly loves you and that will be right with you.
Auliq Ice
#25. A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and ... ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.
Steven Wright
#26. We can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.
Chris Crutcher
#27. It is better to have just one friend that adds value to your life than having a million friends that add no value to your life.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#28. I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.
Nina LaCour
#29. Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
Edward W. Howe
#30. It figured my family would get along better with Clark than they did me.
Gwenda Bond
#31. To be in the company of a Close friend is like the Beautiful Hymns of Heaven,Beware when these Beautiful Hymns start to become a choir of evilness,Now your the decider whether to Live in their Company or Leave their Company in search of a better one,For the best is just Pseudo
Abhishek Sundarraman
#32. Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.
Alexandra Elle
#33. I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.
Bob Dylan
#34. Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.
Plutarch
#35. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
Idries Shah
#37. Your life is going to be influenced by friends you mingle with.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#40. [ ... ] friendship creates a whole new economy. When people realize there's no agenda other than friendship and better understanding, it changes things.
Bob Goff
#41. One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
Mindy Kaling
#42. Ah brother, things will be better now. I promise." Ronan ... "Vital Perception
D.L. Given
#43. Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.
David Brooks
#44. Are you better than this friendship?" I ask quietly, afraid of the answer. "I think I'm better than you," he says.
Pierce Brown
#45. When you feel solitude is your only option, never be afraid to accept a gentle smile from a friend, and the warmth of another's hand in yours. Walking together is a better option, than walking alone....
Virginia Alison
#46. Better to leave with good memories than have the last ones be the embarrassing, smoking ruin of what once had been a fantastic friendship.
Katherine McIntyre
#47. There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.
Phil Callaway
#48. I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#50. Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
C.S. Lewis
#52. If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern ... what better gift?
Fred Rogers
#53. I know I always screw up,
but you know me better,
so just always know this was one of my totally lame jokes.
Because deep inside your heart I know there is love and friendship,
and I know someday you will forgive me
Orey Brockington
#54. It seems there are some problems even Prosecco and cake can't make better.
Lorraine Wilson
#55. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Holmes
#56. And anyway, how was a friendship any more codependent than a relationship? Why was it admirable when you were twenty-seven but creepy when you were thirty-seven? Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better?
Hanya Yanagihara
#57. IF I HAD a dime for every time I've heard "We're all going to die" or "I'll kill you," I could afford a better apartment. You can only listen to so many threats of destruction, doom, or death before you start tuning them all out. So I followed the wolf out of the building, then went home.
J.C. Nelson
#58. A real friendship is like a marriage: for richer and poorer, for better and for worse. If the moment of truth comes, and you can't bear to make a sacrifice, what kind of friend are you?
Sean Stewart
#59. Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, "There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.
Philip Zaleski
#60. Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
Charles Lamb
#61. A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends
John Chrysostom
#62. No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#63. New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. When you touch a life,
strive to leave it the better
for the change you make
J. Benson
#65. Difficult times are ways to know and understand yourself and others in a better way.
(From 'Voyage to Happiness')
Sanchita Pandey
#66. Bring out others' better side and they are more likely to see and support yours.
Kare Anderson
#67. Life has always been about God winning. He will send you a miracle that will take you through the conflict in your life into a better situation that will create the most peace in the world
if you only believe.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. Anyone can live for themself , but life's worth better living for others.
K. Qasim Ali
#69. I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things.
Monica Hesse
#70. If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour.
George Eliot
#71. There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
#72. By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
Gail Sheehy
#73. Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#74. Friendships and relationships better prosper among equals.
Girdhar Joshi
#76. It's better being lonely than having friends that secretly hate you.
Nina Ardianti
#77. The world is indeed a better place when there is love, friendship, acceptance and hope. Powered by these you can indeed overcome anything including destiny.
Preeti Shenoy
#78. Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
Evangeline Lilly
#79. She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart
was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.
City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau
#80. Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.
Leo Tolstoy
#81. The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
#82. Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
Stephen Fry
#83. But would a high school romance really be worth sacrificing our friendship? No. We were better off friends.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#84. Work harder on improving yourself than on trying to forge better relationships.
Mensah Oteh
#85. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
John D. Rockefeller
#86. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
#88. Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
C.S. Lewis
#89. To love
to fall
is not a question. To touch
to kiss
to speak
those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk. Somewhere in between, lies.
David Levithan
#90. Rabbit and Owl are aging bachelors whose respective megalomania and fussiness are tempered only by their mutual friendship, of which the less said, the better.
Frederick C. Crews
#91. There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. The Good Man
Better an enmity from one block
than friendship held together by glue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.
Gene Vincent
#94. You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take preventive action. Relax, boychick. When they get to know you better they will realize that they were right. You are a shit.
Mordecai Richler
#95. You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.
Tamara Ireland Stone
#96. How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
Thomas S. Monson
#97. Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"
Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled: - and now I like ye better!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#98. How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan.
Sarah Mylnowski
#99. Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
Ann Patchett
#100. ...the only trick with friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are - not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving - and then appreciate them for what they can teach you...
Hanya Yanagihara
