Top 83 Work Friendship Quotes
#1. I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
Joel Edgerton
#2. With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch ... I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#3. There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.
Robin Sloan
#4. I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.
Sonakshi Sinha
#5. It takes two people to make a friendship work
Jodi Picoult
#6. I am never home, and it's hard to keep up with things that are good for you to have in life like relationships, whether they be romantic or friendship. I have to work twice as hard to make sure I don't just check out. That's what I mean by vulnerability.
Jen Kirkman
#7. When someone cares ... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.
Susan Polis Schutz
#8. Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself.
Toni Morrison
#9. I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#10. But the summer had been a very happy one, too
a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.
L.M. Montgomery
#11. It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.
Ray Liotta
#12. Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
Bill Bradley
#13. Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.
Louise Bernikow
#14. And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.
Patrick Ness
#15. When we all work together for love, for unity,
there will be friendship, happiness, and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#16. If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.
Ayn Rand
#18. Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. Not everyone will support every mission or work, you can still enjoy their friendship. No one likes to feel that the only reason you are friends is what you can get out of them.
John Patrick Hickey
#20. A friend ... showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.
Shashi Deshpande
#21. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?
Dean Koontz
#22. I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.
Cory Booker
#23. Stood there and watched and didn't do a thing to help me.
Jodee Blanco
#25. Sometimes I think, What a man gonna do with all this media publicity, Photos in newspapers, photography in and among the industry, references and contacts when he cannot help a friend, when he has no family life, and not Even a dog to welcome him after work hours!
Himmilicious
#26. 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
#27. Well, honey, once you've been head-over-heels in love with somebody, you don't go back to being 'friends'. It doesn't work that way. - Megan's Dad
Lauren Baker
#28. When you move as much as I have ... you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, why you liked that person. And I hated it. And I just didn't want to do it again. Not with you.
Morgan Matson
#29. I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her.
Nina LaCour
#30. We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.
Allen Johnson
#31. Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#32. I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
Rupert Brooke
#33. Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works
Agona Apell
#34. If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
Eve Arnold
#35. Because apparently One Direction's superpower is instant friendship. Someone should ship them to the Middle East so they can get to work on that Israel-Palestine thing.
Emma Chase
#36. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.
Dan Ariely
#38. I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.
Francesca Woodman
#39. The author sees Luke's loyalty to the apostle Paul "depicted architecturally in the great church at Rome known as St. Paul Outside the Walls. There, a statue of Luke holding a writing stylus commemorates not only his work as a Gospel author but his faithfulness to Paul.
Bryan Litfin
#40. Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do.
Stephen King
#41. All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and
whatever that day may bring. A hope grounded in the real world of
living, friendship, work, family.
Bruce Springsteen
#42. Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend.
Svetlana Chmakova
#43. No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.
Hugh Black
#44. As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.
Jason E. Hodges
#45. 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
#46. As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.
Celia Thaxter
#47. An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship.
Gillian Flynn
#48. Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
Robert Greene
#49. Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.
Betty White
#50. I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... . But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#51. Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.
Rebecca McNutt
#52. Females and males watched Rhysand throughout the hall - and the shadowsinger and I made a game of betting on who, exactly, would work up the nerve to invite the High Lord home.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.
Ashton Carter
#54. And I also believe that love can work miracles."
"Love?" She cocked an eyebrow at him. "What about friendship? Can that work miracles, too?"
Carwyn rolled his eyes. "Silly B, love is friendship ... just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.
Elizabeth Hunter
#55. People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them.
Don't be afraid to reach out.
Mensah Oteh
#56. Each of us has a vulnerability like Edmund's that Satan is eager to exploit. It may be something addictive like drugs or alcohol, or it may be something seemingly harmless and perhaps even good like food, friendship, or work.
Discovery House Publishers
#57. If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#58. A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger. pg. 287
Elise Broach
#60. Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.
Robertson Davies
#61. The familiar (if loud) churn of the engine made it hard to talk, especially with the windows open (the air-conditioning didn't work), but the day was warm and they blasted the music and sang along. Nessa loved singing at full volume. She couldn't carry a tune, but with Bree it didn't matter.
C.D. Bell
#62. When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.
Shauna Niequist
#63. He has joy in our friendship and in our partnering together in the work of the kingdom with Him.
Mike Bickle
#64. Conversations with a trusted friend pull us into a new point of view as if we are supporting characters in a work of fiction. In both, we spread our stories, ideas and emotions outside of ourselves so we can view them from distinct angles.
Teresa Hirst
#65. We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
Joshua Prager
#66. Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.
Didier Anzieu
#67. Work harder on improving yourself than on trying to forge better relationships.
Mensah Oteh
#68. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love ... I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
Elbert Hubbard
#69. I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work - and each other. You're my friend? Don't pick up that pen!
Chila Woychik
#70. For a friendship to work, both people have to want the same thing. Both people have to want to be friends.
J.R. Rain
#71. I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon
#72. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle.
#73. Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.
Myles Munroe
#74. The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.
Robin Williams
#75. I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.
Kenneth Logan
#76. I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things.
Monica Hesse
#77. We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.
Leslie Knope
#78. Of course, on a job, you have a shared common interest in the fact that you're there making a movie or making a TV show, and that creates unification within a group. There has to be something more than just the work for that to continue on, for that friendship to continue on.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#79. Inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. So
Gillian Flynn
#80. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
#81. I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
Daniel Tammet
#82. What is society but an individual? [ ... ] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
Osamu Dazai
#83. She was supportive, didn't pry or expect anything from me, and sensed when I needed my space. If she were a guy, I'd probably date her. Or, if I were a lesbian. And if she were a lesbian. I guess we'd both have to be lesbians for that to work. Regardless, she made a pretty great friend.
Temple West
