Friendship Genuine Quotes

#1. Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.

Donna Lynn Hope

#2. When they argue, there can be no danger of a permanent rift, because they're Mother and Daughter. A terrible and beautiful phenomenon to watch.

J.D. Salinger

#3. You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.

Kiera Cass

#4. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

Dean Koontz

#5. Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love.

Dean Koontz

#6. Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram
that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.

Lady Gaga

#7. I never know what I feel until it's too late.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#8. On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.

Nel Noddings

#9. Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

George Ebers

#10. For we have been there in the books and out of the books - and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts,

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Dalai Lama

#12. She may be a bitch, but she's a genuine bitch with a heart

Emily Henry

#13. I wanted my heart to bloom
and shelter a shadow of love.

Suman Pokhrel

#14. There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

Umberto Eco

#15. I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

Jessye Norman

#16. Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence.

Julia Middleton

#17. Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real

Courtney Love

#18. True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

Dalai Lama

#19. We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there's a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine affection flowing back and forth.

Kamila Shamsie

#20. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.

Russ Ramsey

#21. 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

#22. Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Carol Shields

#23. That's unfortunate, I say, choosing my words carefully and realizing that this might be the hallmark of a genuine friendship: how freely you speak.

Emily Giffin

#24. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

Crystal Woods

#25. While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business.

John Brabender

#26. What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Arthur C. Clarke

#27. Ephemeral It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#28. (Hippocampi are so my newest favorite mythological creature. I keep asking my husband for one. He keeps saying no, the griffin wouldn't like it.)

Rick Riordan

#29. To my thinking, offence has no possible place in genuine friendship. The one pained always forestalls offence by the realization of non-intention to wound on the part of the other.

Florence L. Barclay

#30. I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Donna Lynn Hope

#31. 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

#32. My mom took me to a dog show and I won!!

Rodney Dangerfield

#33. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

#34. Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

Jeff Tweedy

#35. Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Austin O'Malley

#36. 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

#37. The principle component in any genuine friendship is caring, not competition.

Charles F. Glassman

#38. Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops ... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Dalai Lama

#39. I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks - but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

Helen Simonson

#40. Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

Neal A. Maxwell