Top 100 Friendship Is Quotes
#1. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
Anne Lamott
#2. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing potatoes.
Holly
#8. 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
#9. ... 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
#10. The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
Alphonse Karr
#15. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#16. 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
#17. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#21. 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
#22. 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.
#23. 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
#24. Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
#25. A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
Sophie Swetchine
#26. 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
#27. This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.
Melina Marchetta
#28. 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
#29. I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
Mark Twain
#30. 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
#31. Friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people.
Paulo Coelho
#32. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#33. 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
#34. The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
#35. As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the "other girls," and that every girl in the world is, too.
Mara Wilson
#36. The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
Saib Tabrizi
#38. A trusted friendship is a free zone where you can off load any burden without panicking.
Euginia Herlihy
#39. Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who've exposed me to every facet of womanhood.
Jeffrey Zaslow
#40. 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
#41. But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic
Allan Bloom
#42. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Anne Carson
#44. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds
Randy Mitchell
#45. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya
#46. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
Aristotle.
#49. Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.
Pete Townshend
#51. Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#52. It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
Henry Fielding
#53. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#54. Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority
Francois Du Toit
#55. Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Cardinal Richelieu
#56. The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
Nathaniel Branden
#58. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
Sarah Jio
#59. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
#60. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.
Ian McEwan
#61. Our friendship is stronger than most people because we talk and breathe in the same room and we eat and sleep in the same place
Jaejoong
#62. 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
#63. We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.
Anthony Horowitz
#64. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Thalia
#66. We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
Nelson Mandela
#67. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
Dan Pearce
#69. Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it...
Mykyta Isagulov
#70. I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship.
Rumi
#71. A true friend let's you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed.
Charles F. Glassman
#72. Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
Gregory David Roberts
#73. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#74. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
Oswald Chambers
#75. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Vera Nazarian
#76. There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.
Janny Wurts
#77. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#79. LOVE IS NOT MADE UP OF OPITION
LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE LOVED BACK
DON'T LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BENEFIT OR ACHIVE SOMETHING
Ralph Ramovha
#80. Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything
morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.
Suzanne Curchod
#81. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
Ambrose Bierce
#82. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.
E. M. Forster
#83. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.
Carole Lombard
#85. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#86. The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#87. It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
Anne Roiphe
#88. This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!
Hiro Mashima
#89. 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
#90. A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
Zadie Smith
#91. The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall.
Tommy Cotton
#92. 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
#93. There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller
#94. The great thing about true best friends is that when you go MIA for a few months, they inquire but they don't press. Best friends know the power of infatuation but also how quickly it dissipates. You just have to wait it out. And then afterward, tease them about it for decades.
Mindy Kaling
#95. Friends are squad. Squad is family. Family is forever.
Malaika Gilani
#96. Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
Sabrina Bryan
#97. On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
Vicente Fox
#98. It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#99. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E.W. Howe
#100. The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
William Hazlitt
