Top 75 Friendship Giving Quotes
#2. Your pot belly, I'd give that a 10 for size.
Bobby Bare
#3. Friendships offer more than happiness and a feeling of mutual camaraderie; in time they are most important while giving you permission to ultimately be yourself.
Steven Cuoco
#4. Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#5. All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
Alexander MacLaren
#8. It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana
#9. It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
Lord Byron
#10. Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.
John Lennox
#11. And into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon.
Edgar Allan Poe
#12. What's helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.
Drew Barrymore
#13. Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
#14. Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho
#15. We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
Sherry Turkle
#16. I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.
Marlin K. Jensen
#17. I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.
Dorothy Allison
#18. Last Resort friends are for getting from, not giving to.
J.M. Richards
#19. One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other.
Hazel Hawke
#20. God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
Jurgen Moltmann
#21. That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
Frederick Buechner
#22. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
Shannon L. Alder
#23. The portals are certainly closed, so the demons aren't giving any trouble. Lots of talk about hands of friendship, doves of peace, all that sort of crap ...
Herbie Brennan
#24. Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying
That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
#25. The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron
#26. Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
Richard Stallman
#27. Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change
Richard G. Scott
#28. It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
Lois Lowry
#29. The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
Francis Bacon
#30. Now in giving honor to one's parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible.
Peter Kreeft
#32. The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
Patch Adams
#33. As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
Robert Breault
#34. Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.
Girdhar Joshi
#35. What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
George Santayana
#36. Every giver deserves a thank you for a big and small gift because giving is much more beyond friendship and relationship.
Euginia Herlihy
#37. Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
George Madison Adams
#38. To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#39. The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#40. And that is the beautiful thing about friendship: we can take liberties, we can show our frailer side, we can afford the vast luxury of giving way to our boredom when we are bored, our anger when we are angry, our peckishness when we feel downhearted.
Sydney J. Harris
#41. If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
#42. Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
Thomas F. Wilson
#43. Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.
Richard Hovey
#44. Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.
John Mellencamp
#45. We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart's beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.
Sarah Dessen
#46. The highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.
Paul Tournier
#47. A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another
Rumi
#48. I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
William Rounseville Alger
#49. I thought you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.
Jann Arden
#50. Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction ... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.
T.F. Hodge
#51. Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.
Robertson Davies
#52. To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
Frank Frankfort Moore
#53. We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.
Kimberly Kirberger
#54. He didn't have many friends, but he valued his friendship with Angel. She was kind and giving and one of the few women who didn't look at him like he was an un-caged tiger
Katie Reus
#55. Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
William Hazlitt
#56. The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Simon Sinek
#57. 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
#58. I can't imagine anything more life-giving, more comforting, or more fun than being curled up and
surrounded by a group of women who know you deeply, and love you relentlessly.
Stephanie May Wilson
#59. It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.
Haruki Murakami
#60. I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.
Anna White
#61. We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.
Joseph Joubert
#62. Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#63. Am I giving you a headache? I think.
You are a headache.
Kiersten White
#64. A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.
William Shakespeare
#65. There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,
or enemies,
or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
Carolyn Wells
#66. Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#67. 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
#68. Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
Steven Spielberg
#69. You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.
Bob Dylan
#70. Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes
#71. We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
Austin O'Malley
#72. I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#73. Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.
Carlos P. Romulo
#74. Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
Gordon Lightfoot
#75. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself
Mona Hanie
