If Friendships Are That Important Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

Larry McMurtry

#3. Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

Salman Rushdie

#4. There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.

George Deukmejian

#5. Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.

John Irving

#6. It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever.

James Koven

#7. Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Ezra Taft Benson

#8. There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our lives and those we only meet once. Each kind has a different type of impact, but both are important.

Kenneth Eade

#9. It's important to cultivate friendships. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, as a human you are a social being. For the sake of your mental and emotional health, it's important to be honest about and honor your need for meaningful connections.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#10. Friendships are the most important thing you can have in your life. Sometimes they have their ups and downs. Sometimes it's your fault and sometimes it's not. But the key to handling those ups and downs is to remember that good friends will always find their way back to each other.

Carmen Rodrigues

#11. Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Barbara Bush

#12. I think the important thing to remember is that all relationships benefit from a bit of breathing room. Especially friendships. It's only when you find yourself without the women who understand you that you realize there are very few women who will.

Megan Crane

#13. Drew, a friend helping Loren in her research, "...This may be the most important class I've never paid for nor received credit hours for taking. Let's lift our glasses to Professor Finkel!

Kimberly Loving Ross

#14. I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

John Allison

#15. I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

Delta Burke

#16. Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

Meg Wolitzer

#17. I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

Hugh Masekela

#18. My friendships are very important to me.

Zaha Hadid

#19. I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

Niall Ferguson

#20. 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

#21. It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

Steven Spielberg

#22. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.

Ben Tolosa

#23. Every once in a while your world stands still ... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

Art Buchwald

#24. A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

Salman Rushdie

#25. I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

Ali Smith

#26. A man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.

Robin Hobb

#27. If God is not an active part in your friendships, you are missing one of life's most important treasures.

Beth Moore

#28. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg

#29. We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

Mariella Frostrup

#30. You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Charles Noble

#31. For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

Aimee Bender

#32. The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

Caroline Knapp

#33. I am a super social person. I'm an only child, so I thrive on social settings and being around my friends because I make them my siblings. When I'm not acting or singing or working on anything, I am making new relationships with people because, to me, my friendships are very important.

Hayley Orrantia

#34. The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.

Phil Mitchell

#35. I love going out every day and training and being part of the team, and having friendships built up over a number of years. It's those aspects of sport that I feel are really important.

Brian O'Driscoll