Top 100 Quotes About A Friendship
#1. her interest was not the beginning of a friendship but more of a measuring. She
Alexander Chee
#2. A friendship where you're always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn't friendship at all.
Wataru Watari
#3. You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
Marilyn Hacker
#4. Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?
Chaim Potok
#5. A friendship will stand the test of time when all the good that is given is repaid in kind.
Theodore Volgoff
#6. I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.
V. Bozeman
#7. The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.
Jeremy Bentham
#8. To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.
Neale Donald Walsch
#9. pg. 245 ...there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia.
Ken Jennings
#10. We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.
Emma Watson
#11. I think I'd probably be really good friends with Hulk Hogan. I think we'd get along, and I'd, like, chill him out because he'd be all rambunctious and rowdy, and I'd be like, 'Chill out, Hulk Hogan. Everything will be okay.' And he'd be like, 'Thanks, Ron.' And then we'd form a friendship.
Ron Funches
#12. Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. When building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.
Peter Adejimi
#14. Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
#15. Even a friendship needs an effort from both sides, how can we expect a relationship to work from the effort of one..!!
It should be a true-hearted commitment from both involve.
Akansh Malik
#16. I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.
Zoe Sugg
#17. Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
Milan Kundera
#18. The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.
Wendell Berry
#19. Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.
Sarah Dessen
#20. I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.
Doug Sahm
#21. The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.
Lillian B. Rubin
#22. Debate, but do not argue.
Challenge, but do not force your opinions.
To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.
To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.
Jorge Luis Borges
#24. I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau
#25. Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.
Jim George
#26. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
#28. A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,
by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,
becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#29. Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.
Jeffrey Fry
#31. Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility.
Afton Rorvik
#32. What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
J.K. Rowling
#33. There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.
Oscar Wilde
#34. Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.
Lemony Snicket
#36. Considering myself as the reason for breaking up a friendship and marriage, I contained deep embarrassment inside.
LaQuita Cameron
#37. Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Frederick William Faber
#38. Mom was asking me to resume a friendship that had no honest foundation and ended on screamingly awkward terms. How do you do that? You can't.
Jesse Andrews
#39. A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. It was as if he were so isolated that any close contact at all became a friendship in his mind.
Robin Hobb
#41. I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
Kaley Cuoco
#43. When a friendship crumbles, there are only really two things that can bring it back: a shitload of time, or a sincere apology.
Dahlia Adler
#44. There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
Oscar Wilde
#46. True friendship is rare. Don't let a little dispute ruin a friendship.
Steve Maraboli
#47. Because there's no formal etiquette for ending a friendship, most people do it in the laziest, most passive and painless way possible, by unilaterally dropping any effort to sustain it and letting the other person figure it out for themselves. (I
Tim Kreider
#48. Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.
Martin Schulz
#49. Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.
Linda Ronstadt
#50. One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference.
John O'Donohue
#51. Barak Obama got involved, I don't know if Brexit was through a friendship with David Cameron.
Donald Trump
#53. Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn't a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.
Janette Rallison
#54. This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You'd think it would be less painful this way.
Cat Clarke
#55. I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize
Leonard Nimoy
#56. As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.
David Eddings
#57. Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#58. I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
John Cusack
#59. A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore
#60. I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
Jennifer Aniston
#61. It takes two people to make a friendship work
Jodi Picoult
#62. No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.
Max Von Sydow
#63. My mother had told me once when I was little and had a friendship fall apart that some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end.
Cora Carmack
#64. The occasion's enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.
Leah Hager Cohen
#65. What kind of relationship do you have if you never carve out time for the other person? One that is superficial and unsatisfying for both parties. That's why prayer, or intentional time with God, is important if you want a relationship, a friendship, with God.
James Martin
#66. This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.
Dean Bakopoulos
#67. Honesty is the most beautiful gift a person can give to another at the beginning of a friendship.
Kai Meyer
#68. A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
James Russell Lowell
#69. [..] when a friendship has become a matter of arranging to meet, dates in diaries, agreement that next week or the next are 'no good', then it has been silently acknowledged that the old intimacy has gone.
A. N. Wilson
#70. ...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.
Steven Strogatz
#71. A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
Joe Abercrombie
#73. I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
Najib Mikati
#74. Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.
Vincent Nichols
#75. I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
Emma Bunton
#76. The United States and Israel have enjoyed a friendship built on mutual respect and commitment to democratic principles. Our continuing search for peace in the Middle East begins with a recognition that the ties uniting our two countries can never be broken.
George W. Bush
#77. Between love and a friendship, the crucial difference is that when the love breaks you will realise that the friendship is what kept the two of you together.
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#78. Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.
Tamora Pierce
#79. I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#80. Perhaps her requirements were too great,
Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,
For her attempts to form a friendship had always
Ended in disappointment.
A.L.O.E.
#81. All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.
Lauren Myracle
#82. In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.
Martin Schulz
#83. There are not many relationships more powerful than that of two women who fall fast and deep into a friendship. It was heartbreaking to be loved and left.
Mindy Kaling
#84. A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
Maureen Dowd
#85. When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
Marilyn Manson
#86. I was about to add it was as likely a friendship as Lucifer and the Archangel Michael sharing a jug of ale, but I stopped myself. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#87. A mansion begins with one brick.
A forest begins with one tree.
A harvest begins with one seed.
An ocean begins with one drop.
A friendship begins with one gesture.
A fire begins with one spark.
A revolution begins with one idea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#88. I once heard a preacher say, "The reason we sometimes connect so quickly with a complete stranger is because the friendship is not of this life, but is the resumption of a friendship from another." I do not know if this is true, but sometimes it feels true.
Richard Paul Evans
#89. If You Want to Learn Anything About Being Human , Make a Friendship With New Born Child .
Sushil Singh
#90. Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
John D. Rockefeller
#92. I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.
Mark Nepo
#93. On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
Lance Armstrong
#94. It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship.
Christopher Fowler
#95. Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher
#96. When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.
Michelle Gomez
#97. I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.
Maya Angelou
#98. He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.
Hanya Yanagihara
#99. Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?
Donna Lynn Hope
#100. 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
