Friendship quotes
189 quotes. Authors include A. Powell Davies, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Camus, Albert Schweitzer, Alice Walker, Anaïs Nin, Anton Chekhov, Aristotle, Arthur Ashe, Augustine of Hippo, Baltasar Gracián, Barbara Bush, Basil of Caesarea, Benjamin Franklin, Brooks Adams, Bruce Lee, Chanakya, Charles Caleb Colton, Charles Eastman, Charles Kingsley, Charles Péguy, Christian Dior, Christie Brinkley, Chuck Swindoll, Cicero, Confucius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Dalai Lama, Doug Larson, Ed Cunningham.
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“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
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“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
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“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”
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“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
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“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
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“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
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“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.”
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“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
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“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
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“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”
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“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”
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“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”
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“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”
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“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
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“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
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“He who hath many friends hath none.”
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“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”
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“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
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“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
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“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
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“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
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“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
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“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
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“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
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“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
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“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
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“Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.”
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“Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”
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“The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.”
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“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.”
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“Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.”
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“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
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“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
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“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
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“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
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“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
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“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”
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“True friends stab you in the front.”
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“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means.”
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“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
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“Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.”
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“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
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“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.”