Top 100 Friendship In Quotes
#1. I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and great crowds. It's a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash", as we elegantly call it - an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.
Henry James
#2. I believe in romance ... in playfulness ... in passion ... in expressing feelings ... in friendship ... in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms "you" and "me" into an "us".
Steve Maraboli
#3. We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#4. I wish I had something to give you. Something of value. Something to bring you happiness. But I have nothing. Only my friendship in return for yours, for what it's worth.
C.J. Sullivan
#5. 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
#6. Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
Samuel Richardson
#7. Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she's be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure or this that they could say anything.
Marisa De Los Santos
#8. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.
Dawn Powell
#10. ...There is no friendship in the desert, there is no love. The Sahara only knows allies and accomplices. [Hopkins quoting B. Gysin's The Process]
John Hopkins
#11. No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we're really like. I loved Bridesmaids. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time.
Drew Barrymore
#12. Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life.
Keith Ward
#15. Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I've never been separated from you," said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint Thomas said, "A friendship that can end has never been a true friendship." In
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#16. Every Friendship in my life is as a Gift and have more value then every Pearl in this World, money is for to use, but a human in a Friendship is a treasure to take care and to be Proud, many go for money and never meet the value of life.
Jan Jansen
#17. The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes.
What went on there
the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses
turned the blood cold.
J.D. Robb
#18. Treasure friendship in whatever form it takes.
Dawn Camp
#19. Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
Henry Miller
#20. But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
George MacDonald
#21. We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.
Dalai Lama XIV
#22. No, the true face is wretchedly simple and empty. The absolute joy in life, in friendship, in love, is learning about a person, deciphering them, taking each and every mask off to find a new one, waiting to be explored and understood.
Tarun Shanker
#23. For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. We love our friends not just because we like each other or are useful to each other, but because we share the same values and ideals for our society, and come together to advance those ideals.
Jules Evans
#24. I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.
May Sarton
#25. A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.
Jorge Luis Borges
#26. Being shameless in thinking, then talking, about male friendship because it is important. Make room for friendship in your life. Make a federal case out of it.
Stuart Miller
#27. There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.
Carol Alt
#28. Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.
Eric Cantor
#29. Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.
Susan Jeffers
#30. Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
Socrates
#31. China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.
Li Keqiang
#34. When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Aristotle.
#36. Don't forget to be your wife's best friend as well as her husband. True friendship in marriage does away with all sorts of trouble.
Blanche Ebbutt
#37. Happiness is found in the simplest of things. Happiness is found in gratitude, in a kept promise, in a good conversation, in love, in friendship, in an achieved goal, in a fond memory; in all the simple magnificence of life.
Steve Maraboli
#38. Now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there wasn't such a thing as real true friendship in the world.
L.M. Montgomery
#39. I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess ... We found our refuge in science ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.
Freeman Dyson
#40. It was as if he were so isolated that any close contact at all became a friendship in his mind.
Robin Hobb
#41. A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#43. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
Mario Puzo
#44. The consciousness of Divine friendship in devotion, so far from being impaired, is deepened by holy veneration. The purest and most lasting human friendships are permeated with an element of reverence; much more this friendship of a man with God.
Austin Phelps
#45. Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path
Abdu'l- Baha
#46. There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
#47. Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Thomas Carlyle
#48. 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
#49. 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
#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. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#58. The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George Hewitt Myers
#59. When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
A.A. Milne
#60. As a general thing anyone who is not your friend will advise neutrality while anyone who is your friend will ask you to join him, weapon in hand.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#61. He has joy in our friendship and in our partnering together in the work of the kingdom with Him.
Mike Bickle
#62. To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.
Stuart Miller
#63. Sometime it last in love but sometime it hurt in stead.
Irfan Syamil
#64. If someone isn't in your definition of "gorgeous" or "beautiful", it doesn't give you the right to call them ugly.
Abdullah Bashir
#65. In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.
Gautama Buddha
#66. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
Yousuf Karsh
#67. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
Ambrose Bierce
#68. A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
Lysander Spooner
#69. Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
D.H. Lawrence
#70. But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love
Lindsey Kelk
#71. May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. May your hands be forever clasped in friendship, and your hearts joined forever in love. To the bride and groom.
Tracy Brogan
#72. (Chloe) "She considers me a friend."
(Derek) "Does she? Huh. Never thought friendship started with one girl locking the other - bound and gagged - in a crawl space."
Kelley Armstrong
#74. Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.
Harriet Lerner
#76. In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.
Jack Valenti
#77. If you don't beleve in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck
Ridley Pearson
#78. There are different kinds of love, Sarah. I feel one kind of love for your father. A special kind. Another kind for Warren. And still a different kind for you children.' She smiled at me. 'Heaven rue the day we can't feel love for one another. I wouldn't want to live in such a world, would you?
Ann Rinaldi
#79. Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.
Lynda Obst
#80. Love isn't in body to body contact nor is it in the emotions oozed through tears and weeps. Real love lies in soul to soul connection that you can feel through spiritual practices. Love is boundless and selflessness often we mistake with greedy contentment. Love is give and sacrifice
Sadashivan Nair
#81. The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation
Oscar Wilde
#83. 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
#84. I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
R. J. Anderson
#85. Some people are just different, even in the same family.
Danielle Steel
#86. Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
Ethan Hawke
#87. It was about friendship, and pink vans, and doing the wrong thing, but still finding redemption in the end.
Cath Crowley
#88. Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need.
Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you
Ellen J. Barrier
#89. Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
Black Kettle
#90. A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams
#91. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
#92. Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
Francine Mathews
#93. In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.
Cheryl Rainfield
#94. Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.
George Edward Moore
#95. Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
Ouida
#96. Our success at friendship, business, sports, love
indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt
is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#97. The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
Sydney J. Harris
#98. There was Isola in a mad hat and a purple shawl pinned with a glittering brooch. She was smiling fixedly in the wrong direction and I loved her instantly.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#99. My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
Jonathan Swift
