Top 100 Friendship Friendship Quotes
#1. We are born, we get names, we get educated, we get values, we get job and money. But all this is not life, life is love found in friendship, friendship found in love and in love, sacrifice." Vijay
Shaikh Ashraf
#2. Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience.
Rich Mullins
#3. My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
Dalai Lama
#4. My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is anything more worthwhile in life than friendship. Friendship is a far better thing than love, as it is commonly accepted.
William Powell
#5. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
Sophie Kinsella
#6. Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?
Brit Bennett
#7. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
Anne Lamott
#8. The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.
Anthony Trollope
#9. There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives.
Ron Baratono
#11. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#13. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.
Jacqueline Koyanagi
#14. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.
Stephen Richards
#15. Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
Nikki Grimes
#16. Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.
Quentin Bryce
#17. What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
Henry Van Dyke
#18. To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, he had learned not to share evidence of his oddities as a way to distinguish himself from others, although he was happy and proud that they shared theirs with him
Hanya Yanagihara
#19. More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses
it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#20. Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#21. But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.
Linda Sue Park
#22. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.
Mandy Hale
#25. I have a suspicion that you are all mad,' said Dr. Renard, smiling sociably; 'but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You're a part of me; I'm a part of you.
Haruki Murakami
#27. Words can't express what you mean to me.
Puff Daddy
#28. Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with silliest jingles and animation made ever.
Vikrmn
#29. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt
#30. The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing potatoes.
Holly
#31. It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!
Bette Lee Crosby
#32. She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
Gloria Estefan
#33. You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
Rebecca Wells
#34. Bonnie and Annette for friendship. It had become clear shortly after her marriage to
Sam Giancana
#35. A one sided friendship brings exhaustion and there's no one deserves to be sucked dry.
Euginia Herlihy
#36. The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
Paul Cezanne
#37. ... when people love you, they show up. Sometimes that means that they get to bail you out of trouble. It's not bad when that happens; it just means that you return the obligation when you get the chance. You be a guy who is present instead of a fuck-up.
Jeremy Bushnell
#40. she didn't get the subtle nuances of female friendship that other women seemed to have been born knowing. She
Michelle Major
#41. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.
Brook Tesla
#42. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#43. The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.
Brian Houston
#44. Besides,' she says, 'not every friendship turns into a romance. I haven't tried to kiss you yet.
Veronica Roth
#46. She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.
Kristen Heitzmann
#47. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
Oscar Levant
#48. Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
#49. The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
#50. One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
Henry David Thoreau
#51. No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
#52. Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.
Dan Cohen
#53. What she most liked about their friendship was how much space there was for silence[.]
Naomi Jackson
#54. Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.
Rachel Hauck
#55. Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
#57. I can tell you I've crunched the numbers time and time again; it is always more fun to have eight people with one beer than one man with eight beers.
Nick Offerman
#58. And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's enough if he understands what you just said.
Michael Chabon
#59. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C.S. Lewis
#60. Everyone starts out with a clean slate to soil.' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 280)
Danielle Weiler
#61. Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
Alphonse Karr
#62. Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.
David Halberstam
#63. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#64. It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.
John O'Donohue
#65. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#66. I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.
Alan Sugar
#67. How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne
#68. You don't need speech or hearing to feel [friendship]
Mitch Albom
#69. Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean De La Fontaine
#70. her interest was not the beginning of a friendship but more of a measuring. She
Alexander Chee
#71. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
George Arthur Buttrick
#72. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#73. Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.
Thomas A Kempis
#74. I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself ... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
Jessye Norman
#75. When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.
Gena Showalter
#76. A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#77. Sometimes being a good friend is about saying no, about trying to do what's best for your friend regardless of what they say.
Gitty Daneshvari
#78. Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.
Patricia Gaffney
#79. I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.
Jana Wolff
#80. When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
Lou Holtz
#81. My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
Tom Lehrer
#82. Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.
Nicky Gumbel
#83. Love at first sight'some say misnaming
Discovery of twinned helplessness
Against the huge tug of procreation.
But friendship at first sight? This also
Catches fiercely at the surprised heart
So that the cheek blanches then blushes.
Robert Graves
#84. Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
#85. A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
Sophie Swetchine
#86. He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#87. Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#88. It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.
Emma Frances Dawson
#89. This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.
Melina Marchetta
#90. If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
Mortimer J. Adler
#91. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.
Catherine Lacey
#92. I haven't been around here for long. Well ... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.
P.W. Catanese
#94. I like any dog that makes me look good when it stands next to me.
Jean Harlow
#95. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
Kurt Cobain
#96. My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn't allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.
Arj Barker
#97. I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
Mark Twain
#98. Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
Pope John Paul II
#99. Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
Jean Cocteau
#100. Met you as a stranger
Took you as a friend
Hope we meet in Heaven
Where friendship never ends
Raheel Sharif
