Top 88 Understand Friendship Quotes
#1. I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
Roger Ailes
#2. I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done.
Donald Trump
#3. Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.
Mario Puzo
#4. Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.
Rachel Vincent
#5. It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.
Nancy Werlin
#6. Your loyalty to friends and family should have no limit, although it may be expressed in ways that others cannot understand.
Bohdi Sanders
#7. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#8. Friendship scattered across the globe is an enriching exchange: A look outside the box to understand people and their different cultures.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#9. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.
Gregory David Roberts
#10. She grimaces. 'Yeah, maybe you were a bad friend but I'm a good friend so I understand and I'll take you back. Let's just begin again.
Autumn Doughton
#11. While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.
C.S. Lewis
#12. Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.
Tori Amos
#13. It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#14. By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.
Thomas Keating
#15. Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#16. And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. The Prince, XVIII, 5
Niccolo Machiavelli
#17. Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them.
Sarah Morgan
#18. It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
Nicky Gumbel
#19. In friendship, words can go unspoken yet you still understand.
That's why I'm sure that even though I don't say it, you know how special you are to me.
John
#20. If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#21. Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#22. Why? I mean, how could you know? I don't understand."
"Nothing to understand. There is no great mystery in friendship. You brought yourself here, just as I brought myself here to wait for you. I don't even mind that you've kept me waiting.
Ari Berk
#23. Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.
Alexandre Dumas
#24. When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love; only few will understand that it is the end of our past.
M.F. Moonzajer
#25. You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die ... I just don't want to exist.
Rebecca McNutt
#26. We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#27. Reluctantly she lifted her eyes to his, and he went on: "I want you to understand this as though I were one of your own people." He drew in a deep breath. "Thank you. Thank you for your friendship. Thank you for my life.
R. J. Anderson
#28. You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends.
Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.
Lilith Saintcrow
#29. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#30. I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors ... and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#31. I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon
#32. It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
Lois Lowry
#33. Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off.
Because if not, how boring would that be?
Alyson Noel
#34. As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
Robert Breault
#35. Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
Robert Frost
#36. Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
Robert Breault
#37. It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.
Gavriel Savit
#38. If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the emotions not spoken that are longing to be heard.
Christine Upton
#39. I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.
Milan Kundera
#40. Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?
Laini Taylor
#41. We who have travelled much and loved much: we who have
I will not say suffered for we have always recognized through suffering our own self-sufficiency
only we appreciate the complexities of tenderness, and understand how narrowly love and friendship are related
Lawrence Durrell
#42. The key to a good friendship is in tolerating what we don't understand.
Zohreh Ghahremani
#43. I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.
Bridget Davis
#44. Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
George Madison Adams
#45. Stop trying to understand people. Love them instead.
Mensah Oteh
#47. A best friend isn't someone who's just always there for you.It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself
Anonymous
#48. Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#49. I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.
Tina J. Richardson
#50. Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.
Natsuo Kirino
#51. Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his ... he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so.
L.M. Montgomery
#52. Until recently I did not understand what happens when I'm by your side, but I realize this is love which makes me feel this way.
Auliq Ice
#53. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#54. The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.
Elvis Costello
#55. 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
#56. I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#57. My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
Fred Rogers
#58. We can't really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.
Rhys Bezzant
#59. In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
Madelaine Standing
#60. Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
Hayao Miyazaki
#61. When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Zhang Ziyi
#62. Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It's no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor people who understand that love and friendship are more important than riches - Maisie Greenbourne
Ken Follett
#63. We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope.
Nur Bedeir
#64. Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
D.H. Lawrence
#65. I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
William Barclay
#66. To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.
Stuart Miller
#67. 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
#68. If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
Loretta Girzaitis
#69. Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen
#70. I understand, Nate. I get the concept of infinity. It's like the two of us, like our friendship. No end, no limit. We're forever. That's infinity, right?
Cardeno C.
#71. I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?
Joseph Smith Jr.
#72. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#73. Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.
Muhammad Ali
#74. We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.
Alain De Botton
#75. Difficult times give an opportunity to understand, who is your good friend and who is just a friend.
Sukant Ratnakar
#76. Go and have another look at the roses. And you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#77. Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.
Henry Alonso Myers
#78. You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.'
It's a gift.
Christina Dodd
#79. You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Frank Moore Colby
#80. Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.
Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.
Cressida Cowell
#81. Once I had been introduced to depression, I realized if I wanted to help my friend and preserve our friendship, I needed to understand what the illness was all about.
Carlos Wallace
#82. A Friend who can never Understand your Need can never be your true friend Indeed
Abhishek Sundarraman
#83. Difficult times are ways to know and understand yourself and others in a better way.
(From 'Voyage to Happiness')
Sanchita Pandey
#84. His jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.
John Knowles
#85. I know that some people disparage you for your lack of knowledge, and I know you may not understand me, Peter, but I wish you could, because you might be the only person who would. I feel that I can tell you anything Peter.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#86. One day I hope you understand when you reached out your hand, I grasped it, I never let it go.
Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
#87. Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.
Jo Coudert
#88. A friend is a bird who can understand you and sing along with you even when you lose your voice.
Debasish Mridha
