Friendship Requires Quotes

#1. Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

Aristotle.

#2. The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Charles De Lint

#3. Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy; we want variety; and we want novelty. But friendship requires a whole other set of mind.

Stuart Miller

#4. I also learned afresh that friendship requires a constant willingness to forgive each other for not being Christ, and a willingness to ask Christ himself to be the true center of the relationship.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#5. Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.

Andrew Sullivan

#6. Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Plutarch

#7. Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

Mark Kingwell

#8. Friendship requires truth, and there is no truth in her.

Julie Eshbaugh

#9. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#12. The root cause, simply put, is globalization, and the resulting monopolization of wealth by a global elite.

Paul Mason

#13. Acting requires a creative and compassionate attitude. It must aim to lift life up to a higher level of meaning and not tear it down or demean it. The actor's search is a generous quest for that larger meaning. That's why acting is never to be done passively.

Stella Adler

#14. You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

Albert Ellis

#15. Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together, and shake the forest to its roots

Anonymous

#16. Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Jonathan Swift

#17. I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#18. To new beginnings. To the pursuit of ... somethingness.

Cecelia Ahern

#19. Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

Carly Simon

#20. Building bridges requires greater effort than building walls.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Almost every man we meet requires some civility,
requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. The sacred title of 'father' is shared with the Almighty.

Ezra Taft Benson

#23. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde

#24. To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

Sarah Ellis

#25. The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#26. Am I the only one who knows? I'll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me - they just imagine they do.

Philip K. Dick

#27. Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith! ...

Henry David Thoreau

#28. Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

Alfred North Whitehead

#29. Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Aberjhani

#30. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Jane Austen

#31. I've never believed in God. But I believe in Picasso.

Diego Rivera

#32. Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

George Sand

#34. Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Stephen King

#35. We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.

Peter Criss

#36. A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

Tom Bethell

#37. 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